Due to essential maintenance works on the servers at UKCEH, it may be that the BWARS website will be unavailable from 3pm on Friday 11 November through to 8.30am on Monday 14 November.
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Free Workshop - BENHS Headquarters, Dinton Pastures Country Park, RG10 0TH
Introductory key to Apoid wasps - Saturday November 26th 2022 10:30 - 16:00 - Mike Edwards
Booking is essential as numbers will be limited – book using indoormeetings@benhs.org.uk
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Hypoponera eduardi is a small brown ant with a functioning sting, a single substantial petiole and a constriction between the first and second segments of the gaster. It is an underground species with both winged and wingless males; gynes can be either alate and gyne-like or worker-like. This species is known from northern France and has recently been recorded from the Isle of Wight, Guernsey and London Zoo
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The BWARS website is back on its usual url of https://www.bwars.com/
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Sorry that the site has been down for the last few days. We have had a problem with the domain BWARS.com and this is unlikely to be fully resolved for several more days. In the meantime the site is available via the alternate temporary domain BWARS.uk. It is possible that some links might not work but access to species profile pages seem to be working. Mike Fox 2022-09-07
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Sphecodes albilabris is a large (body length 11-15 mm) solitary parasitic bee that is endemic to Central and Western Europe. It also occurs in North Africa and is thought to have been introduced to the United States and Australia by accident.
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BWARS AGM and Members’ Day
Sunday 18th September 2022 9:00 – 15:30
Meeting to be held via Zoom hosted by Tanyptera Trust
The event is free to members, but you are asked to register in advance by email to the Membership Secretary, Clare Boyes (address on BWARS website Contacts page, or in BWARS Newsletter) by Weds 14th Sept. An email with link will be sent to attendees a few days prior to the event.
AGM Agenda
9:00 – 10:45
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Welcome
The Chair, Louise Hislop, will take… Read more
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The Committee gives notice of a proposed change to the BWARS Constitution (also notified in Spring 2022 Newsletter). This will be put to members at the AGM on 18th September 2022. Any comments by email or letter must reach the Chair, Louise Hislop, by 1st September to be considered. A copy of the full Constitution is available to members on application to the Secretary, Clare Boyes.
Section 7, Conduct of an AGM and Elections, an additional clause to be added to define quoracy at an AGM:
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Solitary wasps are a diverse group, with thousands of species in the UK alone. They are often brightly coloured, making them a delight to look at – but with such diversity species level identifications can be difficult. Join our expert tutor to learn more about solitary wasps, and gain the skills needed to identify them to family, genus and species level.
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The social wasps most familiar to us, sometimes called yellowjackets, belong to the superfamily Vespoidea. This group is however far more varied than one might expect with around 50 species recorded in Britain. Join our expert wasp tutor to capture, examine and identify vespoid wasps to species by examining key morphological characters in the field and under a microscope.