| LINKS
- useful pages about aculeates - click on the images or the word link to
open pages |
EUROPE |
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Faszination Wildbienen
BWARS corresponding member, Paul Westrich's extensive site dedicated to
wild bees. |
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Atlas Hymenoptera
An excellent gallery of hymenoptera at the website run by the University of
Mons-Hainaut and the Faculté Universitaire des Sciences Agronomiques de
Gembloux (Belgium). |
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BembiX
German online newsletter for Hymenoptera Aculeata research
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HymIS
European Hymenoptera Information System. Includes an extensive gallery of
photos of many aculeates, full taxonomic status (including synonymy) of all
aculeates. A highly recommended web resource |
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Fauna
Europaea
A project to bring together in one database, the scientific names of all European land and freshwater animals.
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Chrysis.net
An extensive web resource for Hymenoptera Chrysididae. Italian web site in
English language. |
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Wild Bees & Wasps of Europe on Flickr
A growing resource of photos of aculeates from around Europe. Over
seventy photographers are submitting photos. |
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| Sectie Hymenoptera -
Extensive Dutch site containing useful summaries in English, and an animated
Anthidium! |
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Druhy
Čmeláku - A website containing many photos of captive bred European
Bombus species, with their nests. Also contains a list of publications
related to pollination services. |
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Immagini di bombi italiani - lots of images of many European bumblebee
species |
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| Bombus.it -Site about
bumblebees. In Italian. Contains lots of pictures, keys (in English), photomicrographs
and video footage. |
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The
Colletes Website
Michael Kuhlmann's Colletes bees website |
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| Wildbienen
Kataster
- German web pages about wild bees |
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| Interactive Mapping at Centre
Suisse Cartographie de la Faune -The Swiss National database. Includes
interactive maps of bees in Switzerland |
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Page by Wolfgang Rutkies with many images of aculeates with their prey.
Taken in his Osnabruck garden. |
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BRITAIN & IRELAND |
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| Bees of
Ireland: Site aiming to raise awareness of bees in Ireland. Contains
maps, photo gallery and much more. |
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| British
Entomological and Natural History Society - BWARS is affiliated to this
very active society. |
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Bumblebees.org Quite a detailed and clear account of bumblebee biology
and natural history (mostly for the common species found in the NE
Scotland). |
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Natural
History Museum London - Bumblebee Pages
Developed by BWARS member Paul Williams. |
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Highland
Biological Recording Group
BWARS member Murdo Macdonald has included pages on aculeates |
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Aculeate Conservation |
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Bumblebee
Conservation Trust
Launched in 2006. This new organisation is helping to raise awareness of the
need to conserve Britain's bumblebees. |
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Buglife
The only organisation dedicated solely to conserving Britain's
invertebrates. |
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REST OF THE WORLD |
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Catalogue of World Sphecidae compiled by Wojciech J. Pulawski of
the California Academy of Sciences |
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| Checklist of Bee species
of the World. |
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| Pompilidae -
Utah State University site about Spider Wasps and research projects |
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| Ants of the
South Western United States. |
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Strepsiptera an interesting page about these parasites of aculeates.
From France but written in English. |
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| Utah
State University's Mailing List for melittologists (USA) |
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BWARS MEMBERS PAGES |
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| Jeremy
Early's website containing many photographs and life histories of
Aculeates. |
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| Nico
Vereecken's Home Page - contains details of Nico's research into
pollinator-mediated selection. |
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Nico's Wild Bees
& Wasps Photos
Nico Vereecken's Flickr photo pages dedicated to bees and other aculeates.
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Solitary Bees -
Nigel Jones' website about bees in a Shropshire garden. |
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John Vallender's Flickr pages, containing many
photographs of aculeates |
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Karen Nicholls' Flickr pages, containing many
photographs of aculeates
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