BWARS member Ian Tew has been busy upoading some 230 images of bees and wasps in 23 genera, significantly improving our online image collection. Most of the images were taken in south Wales. View the images in the species accounts.
Stuart Roberts has added a a new map showing the results of the 2014 monitoring project for Bombus hypnorum. This includes 3,290 lines of data. 224 new dots have been added to the map in 2014, which represents a more than a 20% increase over 2013.
A number of excellent videos showing behavioural aspects of various aculeates have been added to the species accounts.
Many thanks to John Walters and Vivian Russell for providing the video sequences.
The new video sequences can be viewed on the following pages:
Species accounts for a further 59 species have been added to this website. These are the accounts published in Part 8 of the Provisional atlas of aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland.
Species added are listed on the right.
Links to all the species accounts are here: https://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=species_list
Anteon fulviventre
Anteon jurineanum
Anteon pubicorne
Lasius flavus
Myrmica karavajevi
Myrmica specioides
Stenamma debile
Stenamma westwoodii
Priocnemis agilis
Priocnemis cordivalvata
Priocnemis exaltata
Priocnemis fennica
Trypoxylon attenuatum
Trypoxylon clavicerum
Trypoxylon figulus
Trypoxylon medium
Trypoxylon minus
Crossocerus palmipes
Pemphredon lugubris
Pemphredon austriaca
Pemphredon inornata
Pemphredon lethifer
Pemphredon morio
Hylaeus communis
Hylaeus signatus
Andrena helvola
Andrena synadelpha
Andrena varians
Andrena trimmerana
Andrena ruficrus
Andrena nigriceps
Andrena bimaculata
Andrena nigrospina
Andrena pilipes
Andrena fulvago
Andrena humilis
Andrena niveata
Andrena ovatula
Andrena similis
Andrena wilkella
Lasioglossum parvulum
Lasioglossum punctatissimum
Sphecodes pellucidus
Sphecodes puncticeps
Dufourea halictula
Dufourea minuta
Megachile centuncularis
Megachile ligniseca
Megachile versicolor
Megachile willughbiella
Coelioxys elongata
Coelioxys inermis
Coelioxys mandibularis
Coelioxys rufescens
Nomada fulvicornis
Nomada integra
Nomada marshamella
Nomada panzeri
Nomada striata
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.
An Identification workshop will be held at Dinton Pastures
Details:
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
Andrena vaga, a widespread black and greyish-white mining bee in continental Europe, has recently been found at two locations on the south coast of England - at Dungeness, Kent and Brownwich Cliff, Hampshire. This species could easily be overlooked as it is similar to the widespread A. cineraria, (especially the males) so do be on the look out for this striking Andrena bee in the coming weeks, particularly in southern England.
Above: Female A. vaga at Dungeness, Kent. Photo by Roger Tidman
Below: Female A. cineraria. Photo by Jeremy Early
