BWARS members Nigel Jones and Ian Cheeseborough collaborated on a 13 year project to discover and map the aculeates of Shropshire. The results are summarised in a new publication A provisional atlas of the bees, wasps and ants of Shropshire

Kent Field Club have published the Bumblebees of Kent by Nikki Gammans and Geoff Allan.  The 170 pages include more than 80 colour photographs and updated distribution maps and species profiles of the bumblebees of Kent.  This book aims to provide a comprehensive guide to bumblebee ecology and offers an inclusive introduction to their identification.  It discusses the importance of bumblebees, their decline and how we can help reverse this.

Dr Nikki Gammans is the Project Officer for… Read more

An Identification workshop will be held at Dinton Pastures

Details:

An introduction to the Hymenoptera aculeata

Saturday 11 April 2015

Mike Edwards & Graham Collins.

A ‘beginners’ day, it will start with an illustrated discussion of the main life-histories within group and then move to the microscopes for identification of these; using specimens held at Dinton Pastures, but also anything brought along by participants. This is a chance to get an understanding of what an aculeate is and to start getting to grips with the main taxonomic features. It is not likely that much species-level identification will be covered. Keys to help you get to the aculeate groups will be provided.

BWARS President, Michael Archer's key to Vespoid wasps has been published by the Royal Entomological Society. This new work contains a well illustrated key, detailed species accounts and colour images of many species.

Details for the AGM weekend programme have been published here

The 2014 BWARS AGM weekend will take place on 27 and 28 September at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.

Download the programme here