Following the requests made at the very successful AGM workshops in Cardiff, Mark Pavett and Mike Edwards will be running a workshop at Cardiff in conjunction with the National Museum of Wales. 

The workshop will be concerned with the identification of solitary wasps with one submarginal cell -  the genera Trypoxylon, Crabro, Crossocerus, Ectemnius, Entomognathus, Lindenius, Rhopalum, Oxybelus.

If you don't know what these genera are, the workshop will provide a good starting point; equally, if you want to tussle with the finer points… Read more

IBRA - The International Bee Research Association has recently published Plants for Bees. Illustrated in full colour throughout, the book provides gardeners, beekeepers and bee lovers with all the information they need to create a healthy environment for the many species of bee in the British Isles.

Plants for Bees very adequately recognises the importance of all our native bee species. Many solitary as well as social species are depicted in excellent quality photographs, most of which have been contributed by BWARS members.

Plants for Bees can be orederd… Read more

The Colletes hederae "ivy bee" season is upon us. C. hederae has been spreading north across the country since 2001 and BWARS is keen to continue recieving records of sightings.

Go the Colletes hederae project page

Details of workshops and the programme for the 2012 AGM are available here

BWARS member Nick Owens has jointly authored a new guide to the Bumblebees of Norfolk.

More details here

A new guide to the Bumblebees of Norfolk is now available from BWARS member Nick Owens.

72 pages with colour throughout. This guide provides a comprehensive overview of the 23 species of bumblebee known from Norfolk during the past 100 years. There are details of life histories and the ecology of individual species. In addition the descriptions of species will provide useful pointers for helping to identify most of the UK species (including all the most widespread species), so this guide will be of… Read more