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Wanted urgently. A short video clip of a wild bee (NOT a honey bee) visiting a flower - about 30 second is good. This is to go on a Centre for… Read more

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The planned 2020 Members long weekend meeting in Devon has been postponed until 25th to 28th June 2021

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BWARS Website User Survey

The BWARS website is several years old and has not kept pace with technological developments. For instance, we… Read more

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Bumblebees of North East England, covering Northumberland and County Durham, has been published by the Natural History Society of Northumbria.… Read more

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Steven Falk has produced six very useful "crib Sheets" to help people distinguish the groups of look-a-like bumblebees. They can be downloaded… Read more

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Download the workshop presentation given by Juho Paukkunen at the BWARS Members' Weekend 2019. The presentation outlines key characters for… Read more

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The 2019 AGM draft programme can be downloaded… Read more

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This is a corrected version of the key to Vespidae wasps, issued in the BWARS Newsletter (Spring 2019 issue).

The correction relates to… Read more

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Details of the BWARS AGM and Members' Weekend 2019 can be found in the diary