Sunshine again on Saturday following three gloomy cool days, brought out the male & female Anthophora plumipes foraging on the Pulmonaria. Then I spotted a...
Hello, Not a hoverfly; is this a Mining Bee? http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Hoverfly2855.jpg Image on: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Hoverflies.html Cheers Andy Horton ...
Hi Andy, Certainly not a hoverfly, it has 2 pairs of wings. I printed off a copy and used a magnifying glass, looked at the wing venation [using Willmer] 3 SM...
Hello, This picture was an incidental one as the bee was upstaged by a Bee-Fly: http://www.glaucus.org.uk/Bee-Fly098.jpg This means that a higher resolution...
Hi all, very basic stuff I know, but could someone confirm this is a queen Vespula vulgaris. She was soaking up the radiated warmth from my garden wall early...
... Vespula vulgaris. She was soaking up the radiated warmth from my garden wall early evening on Saturday. Lots of tiny bees about feeding on Pulmonaria. Very...
... Nice bee-fly pic - very difficult to catch them when they're still! Alan Stubbs has done a British Bee-flies key in British Wildlife, Volume 8, No.3.,...
Yep Vespula vulagris queen... no doubt! Stuart __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Personals - Better first dates. More second dates. ...
Thanks Maggie and Stuart for your replies. Most of the tiny bees were either black or dark brown with golden hairs. When we get some more sunny weather [not...
Hello This is my first message to this group. I became interested in bees while I was a member of the local Lincs Butterfly group and noticed there were always...
... Volume 5, No.5., June 1994 - if that's any help. As well as the key in British Wildlife there is a new key to social wasps in the excellent new BWARS...
Hello All, Just been out in North Shropshire with Ian Cheeseborough. It was a cold overcast day, with bright spells. Even so there was a fair bit of activity...
Hello all Shrewsbury 9 April 2005. A mass emergence of Andrena bees ocurred today. At least 20 - 30 were crawling out from the ground next to a path. It's my...
Hello, 10 April 2005 There was what looked like an Andrena Mining Bee (illustrated below) on yellow flowers on the south-facing A27 road embankment north of...
Hello, 10 April 2005 There was what looked like an Andrena Mining Bee on yellow flowers on the south-facing A27 road embankment north of the Dovecote Estate,...
Thanks Stuart. I was beginning to conclude that they were likely to be A scotica, because of the communal nesting behaviour. I'll verify by key soon. ... Terms...
Dear all A very useful site for anyone planning to run pan traps for site surveying. Terry Griswold's US team are the leading black belts at this. Pan trapping...
... Hi Stuart, Never heard of pan trapping, what is involved? I shall have to visit the site as you suggest. I've heard that bumbles come to bright yellow ...
Hi all. many of you will know Paul (either directly or indirectly). I spoke to him last evening, and he drew my attention to his new website (which is well...
Hello All, It's freezing today, so I have been trawling through my invertebrate photographs from 2003 and I came across some very nice shots of a dark (male I...
Stuart, Thanks for the tip off. Really nice pages and great photos. Hint: You can get an idea of what the pages say by using the Google translate tool. It's...
For some years now I've been checking Bombus lapidarius on a fairly random basis in the rather forlorn hope that I might find Bombus ruderarius, and today it...
Hello, I have made an ID mistake. It seems that I have recorded and photographed a solitary bee Anthophora plumipes. Under-recorded species. Web page: ...
Hi Nigel, The photos are of a male Megachile, either M. centuncularis or M. versicolor. Unfortunately the diagnostic characters for species identification are...
Dear Andy, To put the record straight, your bee is a female Anthophora plumipes. It is the male which is brown (and additionally has an obvious yellow face). ...
Dear Martin, Bombus ruderarius is a scarce bee in Hampshire and, in common with most other counties in which it has been recorded, it is seriously declining....
Thanks George Much appreciated. I will keep my eye open for a specimen to ID this year. ... From: George Else To: bwars@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, April 18,...
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