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JOIN BWARS
Membership is £15 per annum. Members receive a twice yearly newsletter. New members receive the 155 page Members Handbook, an invaluable aid for anyone studying bees, wasps & ants.

Membership also provides you with access to workshops, the Annual General Meeting and an active community of enthusiastic hymenopterists.


Download a membership application
HERE

 

Chrysura radians
Drawing Geoff Allen

2006 BWARS AGM & Workshop - Photo N Jones
Identification workshop at the 2006 AGM
Membership benefits:

Workshops
Past workshops:
Introduction to the Bees. Held at the National Museum of Wales

Lassioglossum, Halictus and Sphecodes bees. Held at Reading

Forthcoming workshops:
Sawflies. To be held at Reading

Pompilidae Spider-Wasps. Two workshops to be held in Reading and Bristol.

2007 workshop details here

 

Members Newsletter

Published twice yearly, 50-60 pages. The newsletter contains members notes, articles of interest, species profiles, pilot maps, noteworthy records of aculeates, species status reviews and many other items. The newsletter has recently included colour photographs on the cover pages (inside and out) in addition to drawings and black and white photos throughout.
 

Members Handbook

The 155 page members handbook is an an invaluable aid to anyone interested in aculeates.

Atlases
members receive copies of new distribution atlases as they are published.

Membership list

Most members elect to have their name and contact address published in the newsletter. This allows members to contact other aculeate workers in their area who may be interested in joint activities - field trips, informal meetings, recording target areas which have been poorly recorded.

Members Handbook contents include:

Characteristics and Life-histories of the Aculeates

The Conservation of Bees, Wasps and Ants

Collecting and Preserving Aculeate Hymenoptera

Identification of Aculeates

Recording Aculeates

Encouraging Bees in the Garden

Photographing Aculeates

Check List of British Aculeates

Adult Active Months and Notes