BWARS Long Weekend Field Meeting in East Devon in conjunction with Clinton Devon Estates and the RSPB

The event is being organised to better understand the aculeate fauna of the Pebblebed Heaths which have been under recorded for a considerable number of years.

The vast majority of these extensive lowland heaths are within the ownership of Clinton Devon Estates who have kindly agreed to host this event. The heaths are managed by a consortium of interested parties including the RSPB and the Pebblebed Heaths Conservation Trust.

The weekend will consist of an indoor… Read more

The planned 2020 Members long weekend meeting in Devon has been postponed until 25th to 28th June 2021

Details here:

Friday 24th to Sunday 26th July 2020
SRUC Ayr Campus

More information below:

List of British and Irish aculeate Hymenoptera, providing BWARS' currently accepted concepts (February 2020) PDF

Provisionally booked at Juniper Hall, Field Studies Council, Surrey.

The programme will be made available here in due course.

Venue: World Museum Cardiff

Programme to follow

BWARS Website User Survey

The BWARS website is several years old and has not kept pace with technological developments. For instance, we know that the current website does not work well on mobile phones. So, BWARS needs to commission a new website but we need to understand how you use the current website, and what you would like to see in a redeveloped website.

We are very keen to hear your views. Your answers will help us prioritise the development of the new website so that it meets your needs.

Please could you answer the following questions by no later than… Read more

The water-dropwort mining bee, Andrena ampla Warncke (Hymenoptera: Apidae), New to Britain

Added to the British checklist by Falk, Paxton & saunders (2020). Download the paper here.