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The Pollinator Monitoring Scheme will continue in 2018. More details HERE

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BWARS AGM
The programme for 21st and 22nd October 2017 - Liverpool Museum can be downloaded… Read more

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Secretary: Catherine M. Jones (catherinemjones7@gmail.com)

The BWARS Committee invite all… Read more

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In April 2017 Rob Mills photographed a distinctive insect in his garden. This turned out to be the bee-fly Anthrax anthrax, a species… Read more

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BWARS member Paddy Saunders has detailed an alarming 75% decline in Cornish sites for Eucera longicornis - longhorn bees. Read the report here:… Read more

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Nick Owens' new book - The Bees of Norfolk will be published on 1 May 2017. More information can be… Read more

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Defra issued a press release on 20 September 2016 regarding a Gloucestershire record for Asian hornet Vespa velutina
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Researchers at Liverpool University are assessing the presence of Arsenophonus bacterial symbionts in UK solitary bees and require expert… Read more

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A revised and updated checklist of the UK aculeate fauna has just been published covering all of the species of interest to BWARS. The checklist… Read more

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BWARS member Paddy Saunders has produced a new atlas of bumblebees Bumblebees of Cornwall and Scilly. It is available as a… Read more