1. Home

Submit a sighting of Bombus sylvarum (Shrill Carder Bee)

Reporting your sightings of Bombus sylvarum

Bumblebee Conservation Trust are looking for as many records as possible for Bombus sylvarum (Shrill Carder Bee) and have asked BWARS to put up a a dedicated single species recording form for them on our website. So here it is.

Known for its distinctive high-pitched buzz, the Shrill carder bee is one of the smallest bumblebee species  and is identified by its pale grey yellow colouring, black band of hair between the wings and reddish orange tail. If you have any records of this bumblebee, please submit the full details via this online recording platform. Please include any information on numbers, sexes, flower visitation, nesting sites and behaviour in the "Comments" section.

To enable your record to be verified please include a photograph.

Bombus sylvarum female; a very worn specimen. Photo: Robin Williams
Bombus sylvarum male. Photo : Nick Owens

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You are about to submit a sighting of a Shrill Carder Bee, Bombus sylvarum. First, tell us who identified it and provide photos of the record if you have any. This information will help us confirm the record
Contact Details
*
Identification
Please provide the spatial reference of the record. You can enter the reference directly in the Grid Ref box, or search for a place to zoom the map then click on the map to set it. The more the map is zoomed in, the more precise the grid square will be.
*
Please tell us when you saw the record and provide any additional information.
*

Sussex Bees & Wasps Recording Group 2023 Programme

Submitted by Nigel Jones on

Sussex Bees & Wasps Recording Group 2023 will be meeting during 2023. Dates are:

22nd April Warnham Nature Reserve, Horsham

20th May Fore Wood and Guestling Wood, near Hastings (target species is Osmia pilicornis)

1st July Cradle Hill, near Alfriston

15th July Climping Dunes, near Littlehampton

2nd September Sompting, near Worthing

People should contact James Power by email beforehand if they would like to join any of these meetings: jamesmbuna@gmail.com

Updated key to Vespine social wasps available

Submitted by Nigel Jones on

Updated version December 2022. The Vespine key on  the BWARS website has been extensively revised for many of the male characters, most notably the males of V. rufa, V. germanica and V. vulgaris. The markings on these species are very variable and the only reliable way of separating them is by looking at the genitalia of dead specimens, in particular the shape of the central 'tongue' or adeagus.

There have been small alterations elsewhere in the text.

Download the key here

entoLIVE is hosting a number of free live webinars in 2023

Submitted by Mike Fox on

entoLIVE is hosting a number of free live webinars in 2023, including 6 particularly relevant to BWARS members

Details have been added to the Diary of Events page

For further webinars on a diverse range of invertebrate topics register here https://www.eventbrite.com/cc/entolive-webinars-74679

Subscribe to