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LINKS - useful pages about aculeates - click on the images or the word link to open pages

EUROPE

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Faszination Wildbienen
BWARS corresponding member, Paul Westrich's extensive site dedicated to wild bees.

Atlas Hymenoptera

An excellent gallery of hymenoptera at the website run by the University of Mons-Hainaut and the Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de Gembloux (Belgium).


BembiX

German online newsletter for Hymenoptera Aculeata research


HymIS

European Hymenoptera Information System. Includes an extensive gallery of photos of many aculeates, full taxonomic status (including synonymy) of all aculeates. A highly recommended web resource


Fauna Europaea

A project to bring together in one database, the scientific names of all European land and freshwater animals.


Chrysis.net

An extensive web resource for Hymenoptera Chrysididae. Italian web site in English language.
 

 

Wild Bees & Wasps of Europe on Flickr
A growing resource of photos of aculeates from around Europe. Over seventy photographers are submitting photos.

Sectie Hymenoptera - Extensive Dutch site containing useful summaries in English, and an animated Anthidium! Link
Druhy Čmeláku - A website containing many photos of captive bred European Bombus species, with their nests. Also contains a list of publications related to pollination services. Link
Immagini di bombi italiani - lots of images of many European bumblebee species Link
Bombus.it -Site about bumblebees. In Italian. Contains lots of pictures, keys (in English), photomicrographs and video footage. Link
The Colletes Website
Michael Kuhlmann's Colletes bees website

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Wildbienen Kataster - German web pages about wild bees

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Interactive Mapping at Centre Suisse Cartographie de la Faune -The Swiss National database. Includes interactive maps of bees in Switzerland

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Page by Wolfgang Rutkies with many images of aculeates with their prey. Taken in his Osnabruck garden.

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BRITAIN & IRELAND
 
Bees of Ireland: Site aiming to raise awareness of bees in Ireland. Contains maps, photo gallery and much more. Link
British Entomological and Natural History Society - BWARS is affiliated to this very active society.

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Bumblebees.org Quite a detailed and clear account of bumblebee biology and natural history (mostly for the common species found in the NE Scotland).


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Natural History Museum London - Bumblebee Pages
Developed by BWARS member Paul Williams.

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Highland Biological Recording Group
BWARS member Murdo Macdonald has included pages on aculeates

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Aculeate Conservation  
Bumblebee Conservation Trust
Launched in 2006. This new organisation is helping to raise awareness of the need to conserve Britain's bumblebees.

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Buglife
The only organisation dedicated solely to conserving Britain's invertebrates.
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REST OF THE WORLD
 
Catalogue of World Sphecidae  compiled by Wojciech J. Pulawski of the California Academy of Sciences  
Checklist of Bee species of the World.

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Pompilidae - Utah State University site about Spider Wasps and research projects

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Ants of the South Western United States.

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Strepsiptera an interesting page about these parasites of aculeates. From France but written in English.

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BWARS MEMBERS PAGES
 
Jeremy Early's website containing many photographs and life histories of Aculeates.


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Nico Vereecken's Home Page - contains details of Nico's research into pollinator-mediated selection.

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Nico's Wild Bees & Wasps Photos
Nico Vereecken's Flickr photo pages dedicated to bees and other aculeates.

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Solitary Bees - Nigel Jones' website about bees in a Shropshire garden.

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John Vallender's Flickr pages, containing many photographs of aculeates

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Karen Nicholls' Flickr pages, containing many photographs of aculeates
 

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