BWARS are pleased to make the following files available as free downloads.
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A crib sheet by Steven Falk to aid the identification of bumblebees with bands and red tails (i.e excluding those with unbanded black bodies and red tails) - 2021 |
 DistinguishingBandedRedTails.pdf |
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A crib sheet by Steven Falk to aid in the identification of female cuckoo bumblebees - 2021 |
DistinguishingCuckooBeeFemales.pdf |
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This guide uses a combination of size, colour pattern and biological information to provide an identification key of 14 fairly distinctive species of solitary bees known |
Wild Bees of Scotland identification guide.pdf |
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A draft key to the British DEBS (Dryinidae, Embolemidae & Bethylidae) by Michael Archer. Michael comments "I have produced these keys via Perkins although I am grateful for the help I have received from Olmi". Note: Olmi authored the key work to Fenno-Scandian DEBS (Olmi, 1994). |
Key_to_British_DEB_species.pdf |
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A key to the genera of the families Dryinidae, Embolemidae and Bethylidae by Michael Archer - tested at BWARS workshops. |
Key_to_DEB_genera.pdf |
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A key to the British Chrysididae by Micahel Archer |
Key-British_Chrysid_Wasps.pdf |
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A spreadsheet containing all species concepts known to BWARS - updated 20 August 2020 |
 All_known_species_concepts_August_2020.xlsx |
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Dipterists Forum Field Week 2021 Invitation |
DF_Cornwall_invite.pdf |
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A list of all the species recorded by David Baldock from Farnham Heath |
Farnham Heath species list.pdf |
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List of British and Irish aculeate Hymenoptera, providing BWARS' currently accepted concepts (February 2020) PDF |
BWARS_species_list_iso_February_2020.pdf |
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The water-dropwort mining bee, Andrena ampla Warncke (Hymenoptera: Apidae), New to Britain |
Final Ampla paper BENHS.pdf |
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Dusky-horned Nomad Bee, Nomada bifasciata, New to Britain (Hymenoptera: Apidae) |
FinaNomadaBifasciatalPaper.pdf |
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A visual guide to distinguishing ‘midriffed’ white-tails and their dark forms by Steven Falk |
DistinguishingMidriffedWhiteTails.pdf |
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Presentation notes on Sphecodes identification by Steven Falk. Made for an identification workshop at the 2019 BWARS AGM. |
SPHECODES IDENTIFICATION WORKSHOP BWARS 13 Nov 2019_SFalk.pdf |
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A visual guide to distinguishing white-tailed bumblebees by Steven Falk |
DistinguishingWhite-tails_SFalk.pdf |
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A visual guide to distinguishing Bombus vestalis and B. bohemicus by Steven Falk |
DistinguishingVestalisBohemicus_SFalk.pdf |
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A visual guide to distinguishing male cuckoo bumblebees by Steven Falk |
DistinguishingMaleCuckooBees_SFalk.pdf |
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A visual guide to distinguishing carder bumblebees by Steven Falk |
DistinguishingCarderBeesArrows_SFalk.pdf |
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A visual guide to distinguishing black bodied, red tailed bumblebees by Steven Falk |
DistinguishingBlackBodiedRedTails_SFalk.pdf |
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Workshop presentation given by Juho Paukkunen at the BWARS Members' Weekend 2019. The presentation outlines key characters for separating the 13 British species of the cryptic Chrysis ignita group. Juho cautioned that colour characters given in the Nordic and Baltic Chrysididae key (Paukkunen et al., 2015) are not reliable for British specimens: Juho Paukkunen, Alexander Berg, Villu Soon, Frode Ødegaard and Paolo Rosa. 2015 An illustrated key to the cuckoo wasps (Hymenoptera, Chrysididae) of the Nordic and Baltic countries, with description of a new species. The full Nordic/ Baltic key can be downloaded here
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Chrysis_workshop_2019_Juho_Paukkunen (2).pdf |