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.
Nomada zonata Panzer, 1841, Nomada lepeletieri Pérez, 1884, Nomada pusilla_homonym Pérez, 1884, Nomada planiscuta Saunders, 1908, Nomada navasi Dusmet y Alonso, 1913, Nomada scutellata_homonym Friese, 1921
Added to the British checklist, from two sites in Kent, by Falk and Earwaker (2019). Download the paper here.
Bumblebees of North East England, covering Northumberland and County Durham, has been published by the Natural History Society of Northumbria. Much of the data included was recorded by BWARS members. Northumbrian Naturalist Volume 87 is available from the NHSN
POSTPONED: 2020 BWARS Long Weekend Field Meeting in East Devon in conjunction with Clinton Devon Estates and the RSPB
Date: 26th – 29th June postponed until 25th to 28th June 2021
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.
Steven Falk has produced six very useful "crib Sheets" to help people distinguish the groups of look-a-like bumblebees. They can be downloaded from the Identification Guides page
Hylaeus signatus male emerging from roost
Pseudomalus auratus
