Hi all Chris Raper sent me a couple of photos which I think are worth a look. The first one is a female Andrena hattorfiana visiting a scabious cultivar at a...
I have placed a picture of an empty pupal case in a 'For ID' folder in the photos section. It was found on Juniper. It's just under 5mm in length. There...
Monoctenus juniperi is a sawfly that develops on juniper but I don't think this is a cocoon (not a pupal case) of a sawfly. It looks like the type of cocoon...
Sorry to keep posting this but I really need to try and find as many nesting aggregations of the mining bee Halictus rubicundus as possible. If anyone can help...
Catherine, Many of the county or regional record centres will e-mail or send you details of records of H. rubicundus. In Sussex, for example there are 40 or ...
Has any one seen any bumblebees recently? Bumblebees have been on our mahonias since they started flowering here in East Sussex. Bombus terrestris (only...
I have not seen any bees of sweet box (Sarcococca spp.) in our garden, but we only have one plant. Many invertebrates do, however, patronize flowers of common...
Hello The Hovers like it, as in this picture http://lancingnature.blogspot.com/ Don't know if the bees can use it, they might be a little heavy for it. ray...
Susie Yes. We certainly found both Bombus terrestris queens and workers collecting nectar on Sarcocca hookeriana last year on 19 Feb in the Valley Gardens at...
I had a another look today at the Clematis cirrhosa at Wisley Garden where I had noted 6 worker Bombus terrestris on 11th January 2006. There were no workers...
Andrew Halstead said: There was, however, one queen Bombus terrestris on the Clematis at 13.20 hours today. _____ Today, here in East Sussex, I watched a queen...
Thank you to Patrick, Ray and Steve for your replies. I have taken cuttings and have some seeds too if that fails. Hopefully it will provide a nectar source...
Hi everyone, No winter bumbles here in the garden recently but at the nearby arboretum, a B. terr was seen foraging Stinking hellebore flowers yesterday; and...
... Actually, it's warm skin that feels wind chill. Wind will cool things down faster, certainly, but not to a temperature lower than the air temperature. ...
Has anyone encountered winter honeybees? I saw loads at the weekend collecting from winter flowering heathers at a garden centre. Andy Jukes MIEEM Ecological...
Hi all, I had at least 2 Queen Bombus terrestris, and possibly 3 in the garden in Corsham, Wilts on saturday 11th February. Two were nectaring on Lonicera X...
Alien Species On March 10, the Japanese Cabinet submitted the bill dealing with invasive alien species to the Diet. The Diet passed the bill without amendments...
Hi Paul, Unless you cut them open, it's very difficult to spot when they've been used. If you want to see what's in them, take a few indoors and keep in a...
Hello A small Bumble was seen disappearing into a burrow in some leaf liter and Ivy strewn ground today. The site is a large-ish semi wild garden, Lancing,...
Hi all A couple of years back I wrote an article for the AES bulletin about using dead wood in the garden. In this I mentioned I had a "rotting" log pile which...
Hi Malcolm I am 99.999% certain that the bundles were not used by any bees or wasps to nest last year. My real question was will they be OK to leave up again...
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