10:00am - 4:00pm

Ivan Wright of 'Shotover Wildlife' leads this introduction to solitary bee ecology and identification. Keying to genus will be elucidated using microscopes in the study centre.

This day course will involve indoor and outdoor sessions; tea and biscuits provided - but bring a packed lunch.

BOOKING ESSENTIAL: as places are limited to 8 people: £25 charge.

Contact for further information or to book:

Keith Tomey and Dorothy Reich
The Anne Carpmael Charitable Trust
Withymead Nature Reserve
Bridleway… Read more

To see all registrations and the "reason for registering" field in one quick view click here:

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Citing pages on this website

Use this format:

For example for the page: https://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=bee/apidae/anthophora-plumipes

The citation should be:

Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society, 2013. Anthophora plumipes. https://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=bee/apidae/anthophora-plumipes. [Accessed Date (style 1st January 2013)]

Which would look like this:

Bees, Wasps &… Read more

Hypoponera punctatissima 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 wingless worker-like males and only the alate gynes are likely to be seen above ground. There is some dispute as to whether this should be treated as a native species because it is most often come across in greenhouses and other permanently heated buildings but there is evidence for its presence 1500 years ago in northern Britain (Seifert, 2003) and colonies have occasionally… Read more

Edit the page, then expand the “Other Map Settings” section. In there, the control “Allowed Spatial Ref Systems” needs to be set to “OSGB,OSIE” rather than “default”.

Make sure both are selected so that GB and Ireland are available.

Grab the url for the information sheet by opening it in view (not edit) mode. E.G. for Anthophora plumipes the whole url is:

https://www.bwars.com/sites/default/files/info_sheets/05_Anthophora_plumipes_1col_infosheet.pdf
 

Then, copy this part of the url:

/sites/default/files/info_sheets/05_Anthophora_plumipes_1col_infosheet.pdf

(That is everything after the initial http://bwars.com part of the whole url).

BWARS is launching a project to map and record behaviour of common and easily recognised species.

These are currently:

Andrena cineraria (Ashy Mining-bee)

Andrena fulva (Tawny Mining-bee)

Anthophora plumipes (Hairy-footed Flower-bee)… Read more

Stuart Roberts has provided a review for this new and comprehensive account of the Netherlands bee fauna.

De Nederlandse Bijen

This book is one of those great rarities in the Bee literature: a comprehensive work covering the entire Apifauna of the country and represents the first major work of this kind since Paul Westrich’s seminal work Die Wildbienen Baden-Württemburgs, published in 1989.

The text (in Dutch) outlines the distribution (both in the Netherlands and generally), Habitat, Life History ecology and traits of all 358 species of bee on the Dutch list. The whole work is lavishly illustrated with a wonderful collection of colour photographs… Read more