Invertebrates and us - the good, the bad and the ugly is the title of a series of lectures organised by the Ecology and Conservation Studies Society. This includes two aculeate themed lectures.
Download the programme here
Colletes hederae is now flying in some areas. Send your records to BWARS' annual monitoring project
See the diary entry at: Andrena identification workshop
BWARS.com can now embed videos in its species account pages. We have added videos of Oxybelus uniglumis, showing a female around her nest burrow, then bringing in prey - a fly impaled upon its sting; and Osmia bicornis females collecting mud.
BWARS would welcome further videos ilustrating behaviour of species. Videos should be of reasonable quality. Please contact the web managers if you have material you can contribute.
Website Managers:
BWARS has launched an online survey for Anthidium manicatum ("wool carder bee") here
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:
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)
Stuart Roberts has provided a review for this new and comprehensive account of the Netherlands bee fauna.
Stuart Roberts has provided a review for IBRA's new book Plants for Bees
Stuart Roberts has updated the 2012 map for Colletes hederae
