hello, I'm sorry to bother you all - but I read a statistic today in my diary, and I thought your group would be the best place to verify the truth of it.. the...
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Harold Davies
wirralbirder
Nov 29, 2005 9:47 pm
Hi All Is this a Common carder bee or not Recorded June 14th 03 in Cheshire. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/files/hd/car.jpg Cheers Harry Davies....
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Nigel & Gina Jones
conopid
Nov 26, 2005 9:33 am
November 14 - Wow! I have not seen any Mellinus in Shropshire since mid October. From my limited experience I would say that your observations are very...
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Tim Strudwick
alaudaalauda
Nov 24, 2005 10:59 pm
I have been watching a nesting aggregation of several hundred Mellinus arvensis in a sand pit in East Norfolk, where the last activity I recorded was 2 females...
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Mary
earthboundblue
Nov 20, 2005 6:54 pm
Dear Group, Can anyone answer this question for me? I really need to know if there are any species of ants on the Endangered Species List. This is for a...
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gordon1127
Nov 20, 2005 6:23 pm
Sorry I should have said the photos are in the Gordon file in the files section and not in the photo section. I am still unable to upload anythinginto that...
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gordon1127
Nov 19, 2005 7:52 pm
I have uploaded a few unidentified pictures of Ichneumons photographed (dates as on pictures)in my small garden in Peasmarsh, East Sussex. I do realise that...
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Steve Covey
od0man
Nov 18, 2005 9:34 pm
Hi all, I sent the message below a few days ago but for some reason it didn't come back to me via email even though it showed up in the groups message area. So...
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Stuart Roberts
eucera
Nov 18, 2005 4:35 pm
Dear all This message is a re-hash of one I posted about a month ago. It is great that there is a growing number of group members that are coming to the BWARS...
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Nicolas J. Vereecken
nicovereecken
Nov 18, 2005 3:33 pm
Dear all, I have recently exchanged a few emails with Stuart Roberts about my PhD research program on wild bees. I am working on chemical communication in...
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richard_thomas100
richard_thom...
Nov 18, 2005 2:51 pm
Hi, i'm new to this group and was eondering whether anybody would be able to spare a few minutes to look over some of my images i've taken over the past year...
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Steve Covey
od0man
Nov 15, 2005 12:54 pm
Hi All, just over a month ago I visited my local patch/farm study area and discovered a hornets nest - still under construction. There was constant activity to...
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maggiefrankum
Nov 14, 2005 12:07 am
Hi Marc & Stuart, At long last,I've finally managed to post some images of garden bumbles. The B. terr queen collecting pollen from Welsh Poppies, was taken at...
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Marc Carlton
penge12000
Nov 13, 2005 5:43 pm
Thanks Stuart for the advice about how to post images. I have now created a file and posted three images in it. Marc ... of this Yahoo group...
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Brian Orr
abikea2004
Nov 11, 2005 3:26 pm
Thanks, Marc, much appreciated. I'll now proceed with my wood-drilling with confidence. Interesting line of attack re. the artificial mouse burrows. I'll try...
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Stuart Hine
stuart_hine
Nov 11, 2005 2:26 pm
Hi Marc, You would be better of posting your images under the files section of this Yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/. You simply open up your...
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Marc Carlton
penge12000
Nov 11, 2005 1:33 pm
Hi Brian, I am in process of posting 3 photgraphs via the webmaster. - I assume that they will in due course appear under member's photo gallery. The pictures...
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Les
l_hebdon
Nov 10, 2005 10:18 pm
Hi Maggie It didn't occur to me that it might be a meadow ant nest mound. We don't see yellow ants, here, in the garden. I am more used to the nests of red...
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maggiefrankum
Nov 10, 2005 7:50 am
Hi Leslie, I've just found time to look at the B. lap pic - it looks as if they are using an old Lasius flavus/yellow meadow ants nest mound? Has anyone ever...
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Leslie Hebdon
l_hebdon
Nov 9, 2005 10:40 pm
Hi all There are some wonderful old illustrations of insects on the Delta-Inkey website. A page,from around 1800,depicting Bombus lapidarius also shows what ...
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Joy Oakley
joyoakley12
Nov 9, 2005 4:33 pm
... Stuart, thank you so very much for all the information about the hornets¹ nest. They do seem to have virtually disappeared now  no sign of them round ...
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GORDON
gordon1127
Nov 8, 2005 5:09 pm
Stuart Many thanks for the ID and explanations. Gordon...
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Stuart Roberts
eucera
Nov 8, 2005 2:19 pm
Gordon Helpful pics!. Yopu are clearly on the right track. Firstly... definitely Dolichovespula (The elongate face is diagnostic). They look like D. saxonica...
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gordon1127
Nov 8, 2005 12:54 pm
hello I have uploaded a couple of pictures of a wasp, in my file Gordon's Photos, which I photographed in East Sussex during August. The face features do not...
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Andy Jukes
andymjukes
Nov 7, 2005 8:29 am
Emeo, They could be a sawfly. Sawflies (despite their name) are actually related to wasps and can look similar. Andy Jukes MIEEM Ecological Contracts Officer ...
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emeorico
Nov 6, 2005 8:20 pm
Here are more details: -The caterpillas eats the leaves off our neighbor's and my flowering plants. -The adult has black body with small shimmer of blue color....
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Stuart Roberts
eucera
Nov 6, 2005 7:40 pm
Hi These don't sound like wasps to me at all.... butterflies or moths sound much more likely. Good luck Stuart __________________________________ Yahoo!...
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Brian Orr
abikea2004
Nov 6, 2005 4:48 pm
Hi emeorico, I'm no expert; the reason I joined bwars was to make contact with people who knew a lot more than I did. But the first (non-expert) question I...
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emeorico
Nov 6, 2005 4:12 pm
Hi to you all experts, We live in Puerto Rico (tropics) and have these black flying insects (I think is some kind of wasp) with bring red-orange wings. It's...
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Patrick Roper
cynthiaroper
Nov 5, 2005 11:38 am
Despite the mild, frost-free weather the hornet's nest in the roof of our house here in East Sussex became inactive about three weeks ago and the insects,...
