You can find a new 2022 list of British and Irish aculeate Hymenoptera here

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.

The BWARS website is back on its usual url of https://www.bwars.com/

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

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

1. Welcome

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:

Programme to follow

You can find and download a zip file of all BWARS records at 10km resolution here. It has just been updated.

Research papers and other publications using BWARS data

BWARS AGM and Members’ Day took place on Sunday 24th October 2021 from 10:00 am

Meeting was held over Zoom

AGM Agenda

There will be the opportunity to ask short questions via the Chat function on Zoom.

Voting will take place ‘en bloc’ at the end of each section, via Zoom poll. The poll question will read: ‘On the motion before us, do you agree?’ and the options will be ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘abstain’.