The 2019 BWARS AGM and Members' Weekend will be held at the Field Studies Council Preston Montford centre near Shrewsbury, Shropshire.

The final programme can be downloaded here

You can now download a list of all British aculeates and all of BWARS' data at 10km resolution. Access both files via the "Bees, Wasps & Ants" menu at top left above.

Using and Referencing BWARS Data

You are free to use the BWARS taxonomic and public data for any purpose provided that you acknowledge BWARS as the source of this data. Full access to the data is provided on a case-by-case basis, under a project-specific license. Acceptable cases for full data access are outlined in the BWARS Data Agreement, as follows:

• To further the study and/or conservation of aculeates
• Other educational research purposes (such as university studies)
   

BWARS public data

A list of all the present known species concepts - March 2020.

2019 Species list with current BWARS concepts.

Known from the Channel Islands (2011) and Wick Essex (2016).

Considered extinct in Britain.

Announced as new to Britain in 2019. A species account will be added in due course.

Reference: Mike Edwards, Grant Hazlehurst and Ivan Wright (2019) Stelis odontopyga Noskiewicz (Hymenoptera: Megachilinae) New to Britain. Br. J. Ent. Nat. Hist. 32 pp 43-47

It should be noted that the name Andrena nana has occasionally been misapplied in the older literature (e.g. Smith, 1855; Saunders, 1896) and in some collections, being a misidentification for A. semilaevis Pérez.

All the references given in the species account pages up to Atlas 10 - 2019.