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Tiphia minuta - male
Drawing: Geoff Allen
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Latest Content |
Date added |
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Photo of female Sapyga quinquepunctata
added to gallery |
11 May 2008 |
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Gallery photos added for Nomada goodeniana
and N marshamella |
05 May 2008 |
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Key to British Potter and Mason
Wasps (Vespidae: Eumeninae) added to the Resources page |
04 May 2008 |
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Link to the Essex Field Club's online content for aculeates added to the
UK Guides page |
03 May 2008 |
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Information sheet for Colletes halophilus
added |
02 May 2008 |
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Gallery photos added of dark form of female
Melecta albifrons. |
28 April 2008 |
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Gallery photos added for
Andrena chrysoceles and
A nigrospina. |
22 April 2008 |
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Second note on winter activity in Bombus
pratorum added to notes section. |
20 April 2008 |
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Gallery photos added for Andrena bimaculata, A clarkella,
A dorsata, A
fulva, A gravida,
A praecox, A
vaga, Bombus hortorum,
B lucorum,
Colletes cunicularius,
Eucera nigrescens, Nomada
leucophthalma, N sexfasciata |
16 April 2008 |
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Bee Book photo call - photographs:
requests for additional species |
14 April 2008 |
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Link to page containing many photos of
aculeates and their prey |
26 March 2008 |
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Link to page about Strepsiptera added |
24 March 2008 |
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Three past Newsletters available for download |
20 March 2008 |
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Details of target species for 2008 and 2009 available
here |
20 March 2008 |
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Details of the British Naturalists Association 2008 conference added to
diary page |
20 March 2008 |
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Past issues of BWARS newsletters are now
available. A new Diary page has been added to the
site. |
08 Feb 2008 |
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Hymettus pages revised and new Hymettus
Projects Page added |
19 Jan 2008 |
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About BWARS page updated and a photo of
Andrena fuscipes added |
16 Jan 2008 |
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Advice on how to give a location grid reference for the
Channel Islands added to the
Resources section. |
15 Jan 2008 |
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A copy of a paper on beer trapping social wasps in European forests can be
downloaded
here |
15 Jan 2008 |
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Gallery photos added for Andrena thoracica,
Tiphia femorata and
Oxybelus uniglumis |
13 Jan 2008 |
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Information sheets on grassland
bumblebees and Nomada armata added to Hymettus pages |
8 Jan 2007 |
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Pages added for map generation of UK Ants and
Wasps |
23 Dec 2007 |
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Page added for map generation of all UK Bees |
22 Dec 2007 |
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Photos of Andrena flavipes,
Colletes similis,
Megachile wilughbiella,
Xylocopa violacea and
Bombus muscorum added to the gallery |
01 Dec 2007 |
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Aculeate note added regarding curious dangling behaviour of
Mellinus arvensis |
01 Dec 2007 |
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2008 workshop details added here and a
report of the 2007 Scottish workshop
here |
30 Nov 2007 |
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Beginners guide to deciding whether or not your specimen is a Sphecid wasp
added here |
23 Oct 2007 |
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Gallery photos added of Hedychrum niemelai,
Ammophila sabulosa,
Cerceris arenaria,
C rybyensis,
Mellinus arvensis and
Philanthus triangulum |
19 Oct 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Spider Wasps added -
Agenioideus cinctellus and
Anoplius nigerrimus |
04 Oct 2007 |
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Link added for Jeremy Earl's website |
03 Oct 2007 |
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Photo of
Pseudepipona herrichii added to the gallery |
02 Oct 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Gonatopus clavipes,
Hedychridium ardens,
Hedychrum rutilans,
Pompilus cinereus,
Oxybelus argentatus,
Colletes daviesanus,
Hylaeus hyalinatus,
Panurgus calcaratus,
Halictus scabiosae,
H tumulorum,
Lasioglossum calceatum,
L leucozonium,
Chelostoma campanularum,
Heriades truncorum,
Megachile dorsalis,
Osmia leaiana,
Stelis puntulatissima,
Epeolus variegatus,
Nomada fulvicornis added. |
28 Sept 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Andrena apicata,
A chrysoceles,
Eucera longicornis
Sphecodes monilicornis and
Crabro peltarius added |
25 Sept 2007 |
Gallery photos of Hylaeus signatus added
Identification aids to the UK Hedychridium species added
here |
14 Sept 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Stelis
punctulatissima added |
13 Sept 2007 |
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Gallery photo of Epeolus cruciger added |
09 Sept 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Formica sanguinea and
Symmorphus bifasciatus added |
05 Sept 2007 |
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2007 AGM & Workshops weekend programme available from downloads section
here. Members must pre-book places with the
Secretary |
24 August 2007 |
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Announcement: Website management - there will be no additions until after 6
August 2007. The Website manager is on holiday. |
21 July 2007 |
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Label template available for
download via the resources page |
21 July 2007 |
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Target Species 2007 - list of target
species and compilers added to Recording Page |
21 July 2007 |
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Notes of more records of
Xylocopa violacea in the UK added |
21 July 2007 |
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Bombus hypnorum - latest map of recorded
distribution added |
21 July 2007 |
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Photos of Andrena nigroaenea added to
the gallery, Aculeate notes item added regarding
Bombus foraging on honeydew residue. |
05 July 2007 |
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Photo of Chelostoma campanularum
and Argogorytes mystaceus added to
the gallery |
02 July 2007 |
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Photo of Andrena humilis added to the gallery |
28 June 2007 |
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Photos of Ammophila sabulosa,
Omalus aeneus,
Hoplosmia spinulosa,
Hoplosmia claviventris,
Andrena fulvago and
Anthophora bimaculata added to the
gallery |
26 June 2007 |
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News item regarding spread of Bombus hypnorum
added |
22 June 2007 |
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Photo of Odynerus spinipes nest entrance
added to the gallery |
01 June 2007 |
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Beginner's Aculeates page added for Wool
Carder Bee |
31 May 2006 |
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Photos added to the gallery: Andrena florea,
A angustior,
Bombus bohemicus,
Bombus pratorum and
Argogorytes mystaceus |
26 May 2007 |
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The link to the review of Worcestershire Aculeate
Hymenoptera now leads to an updated review (2007) |
23 May 2007 |
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Photos of Odynerus spinipes added to
the gallery |
22 May 2007 |
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Photos of Xylocopa violacea and
Bombus hypnorum added to the gallery |
21 May 2007 |
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Photos of Formica lugubris and
F rufa added to the gallery |
20 May 2007 |
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Photos of Chrysis viridula added to
gallery |
18 May 2007 |
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Photos of Hylaeus hyalinatus and
Crossocerus quadrimaculatus
added to the gallery |
17 May 2007 |
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Test key for Nomada added as a download |
12 May 2007 |
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Page added detailing photographs
required for forthcoming book on Bees. Link to Czech
entomological supplier of nets,
traps and storeboxes added. |
12 May 2007 |
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Gallery photos added for Andrena flavipes,
A haemorrhoa,
A. cineraria,
Anthophora retusa,
Eucera nigrescens,
Osmia aurulenta,
O bicolor, O rufa,
Anoplius viatucus and
Lestica clypeatus |
12 May 2007 |
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Gallery photos added for Andrena trimmerana,
Andrena flavipes,
Nomada flava,
Halictus scabiosae,
Halictus tumulorum,
Lasioglossum leucozonium,
Melecta albifrons and
Osmia caerulescens/leaiana,
Cerceris arenaria,
Astata boops,
Ectemnius continuus |
11 May 2007 |
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Photo of Osmia bicolor added to gallery.
Download for provisional list of aculeates of Wales added to UK Guides
page |
10 May 2007 |
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Photo sequences of Andrena humilis and
Mellinus arvensis added to gallery.
Photo of Andrena thoracica added to
gallery |
09 May 2007 |
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UK Guides page updated with details of various
reviews of British aculeates |
09 May 2007 |
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Photo sequence of Episyron rufipes with
spider prey added to gallery and new photo of Andrena nitida
added. New photos of Osmia aurulenta
added, new page for Trypoxylon species
added to gallery. |
09 May 2007 |
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Photos added to Gallery of Andrena scotica,
Anthophora plumipes, Nomada lathburiana, N. rufipes, N. fabriciana,
N. flava, Lasioglossum morio group, Osmia caerulescens/leaiana male, O.
aurulenta, O. bicolor, and Priocnemis pertubator. |
08 May 2007 |
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Photo of Andrena labiata added to gallery |
03 May 2007 |
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Test keys UK bees page added, including a
test key for male Hylaeus. |
30 April 2007 |
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Gallery pages added for Trychrysis cyanea |
30 April 2007 |
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Page for Hymettus research and advice service
added |
28 April 2007 |
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Link to a download of Faune de France keys to Hymenoptera Vespiformes added
to the Resources Page |
25 April 2007 |
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Nomada leucopthalma,
Andrena ruficrus and
Colletes floralis pages added to photo
gallery |
24 April 2007 |
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Links added to a page with a map of Vice
Counties and to a new photo based key to
European Bee Genera |
22 April 2007 |
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Photo of Nomada goodeniana added to
gallery |
17 April 2007 |
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Photo of Andena fulva at nest entrance added |
16 April 2007 |
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Checklist of British Aculeates with
BRC numbers added to the Recording Page |
16 April 2007 |
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Photos of Osmia parietina, Colletes cunicularius and Andrena nitida added to
the Gallery |
04 April 2007 |
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Bees of
Ireland web site is launched |
29 March 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Andrena clarkella and Dolichovespula media added |
25 March 2007 |
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Photo sequence of Wool Carder -
Anthidium manicatum carding leaf tomentum. |
12 March 2007 |
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Page added describing Xylocopa violacea
over-wintering in Leicestershire. |
5 March 2007 |
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New Links to excellent Italian
websites covering Bombus species |
25 February 2007 |
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Second photo of Oriental Hornet - Vespa
orientalis added to gallery |
18 February 2007 |
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Books page added, including announcement of two new
books of interest |
15 February 2007 |
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Guidance for recorders added |
13 February 2007 |
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Site Search function added to the Home
Page. |
11 February 2007 |
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Gallery photo of Cerceris rybyensis |
08 February 2007 |
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More Gallery photos of Colletes hederae |
08 February 2007 |
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Gallery photo of Cerceris arenaria |
08 February 2007 |
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Link to Wild Bees & Wasps of Europe photo pool on
Flickr - added to Links page |
07 February 2007 |
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Link to website with many photos of captive reared Bombus and their nests |
04 February 2007 |
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Detailed caption added to photo of
Dandelion carrying three species of bee |
03 February 2007 |
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Gallery photos of Dolichovespula sylvestris
building a nest |
31 January 2007 |
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Gallery photo
- nest of
Dolichovespula norwegica |
31 January 2007 |
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Gallery photos - Vespula vulgaris nests |
31 January 2007 |
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Gallery photo - Vespa orientalis,
introduced with fruit from Israel |
31 January 2007 |
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Gallery photo - Worker Vespa crabro stripping
bark for nest building |
31 January 2007 |
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