BWARS.com can now embed videos in its species account pages. We have added videos of Oxybelus uniglumis, showing a female around her nest burrow, then bringing in prey - a fly impaled upon its sting; and Osmia bicornis females collecting mud.

BWARS would welcome further videos ilustrating behaviour of species. Videos should be of reasonable quality. Please contact the web managers if you have material you can contribute.

Website Managers:

BWARS has launched an online survey for Anthidium manicatum ("wool carder bee") here

Citing pages on this website

Use this format:

For example for the page: https://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=bee/apidae/anthophora-plumipes

The citation should be:

Bees, Wasps & Ants Recording Society, 2013. Anthophora plumipes. https://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=bee/apidae/anthophora-plumipes. [Accessed Date (style 1st January 2013)]

Which would look like this:

BWARS is launching a project to map and record behaviour of common and easily recognised species.

These are currently:

Andrena cineraria (Ashy Mining-bee)

Andrena fulva (Tawny Mining-bee)

Stuart Roberts has provided a review for this new and comprehensive account of the Netherlands bee fauna.

Stuart Roberts has provided a review for IBRA's new book Plants for Bees

Stuart Roberts has updated the 2012 map for Colletes hederae

Steven Falk has created an extensive Bombus section on his Flickr pages. This includes numerous images of 23 of the British species together with information about each species. Users will find the species accounts particularly useful for helpful hints on identifying Bombus species in the field.

Steven's pages are HERE

BWARS is running an identification workshop for those wanting to improve their ability to identify solitary wasps with one submarginal cell.

More details

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.