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Wild bees of Scotland Guide published

BWARS members Mike Edwards and Jeremy Early have collaborated with Scottish Natural Heritage to produce a guide to some of the common and more readily identified bees of Scotland. The guide can be downloaded here

Large batch of new images added to species accounts

BWARS member Ian Tew has been busy upoading some 230 images of bees and wasps in 23 genera, significantly improving our online image collection. Most of the images were taken in south Wales. View the images in the species accounts.

2014 Bombus hypnorum monitoring - latest map

Stuart Roberts has added a a new map showing the results of the 2014 monitoring project for Bombus hypnorum. This includes 3,290 lines of data. 224 new dots have been added to the map in 2014, which represents a more than a 20% increase over 2013.

New videos added to species accounts

A number of excellent videos showing behavioural aspects of various aculeates have been added to the species accounts.

Many thanks to John Walters and Vivian Russell for providing the video sequences.

The new video sequences can be viewed on the following pages:

Anthidium manicatum

Eumenes coarctatus

59 New species accounts added to the website

Species accounts for a further 59 species have been added to this website. These are the accounts published in Part 8 of the Provisional atlas of aculeate Hymenoptera of Britain and Ireland.

Species added are listed on the right.

Links to all the species accounts are here: http://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=species_list

Anteon fulviventre

Anteon jurineanum

Anteon pubicorne

Lasius flavus

Myrmica karavajevi

Myrmica specioides

Stenamma debile

Stenamma westwoodii

Priocnemis agilis

Priocnemis cordivalvata

Priocnemis exaltata

Priocnemis fennica

Trypoxylon attenuatum

Trypoxylon clavicerum

Trypoxylon figulus

Trypoxylon medium

Trypoxylon minus

Crossocerus palmipes

Pemphredon lugubris

Pemphredon austriaca

Pemphredon inornata

Pemphredon lethifer

Pemphredon morio

Hylaeus communis

Hylaeus signatus

Andrena helvola

Andrena synadelpha

Andrena varians

Andrena trimmerana

Andrena ruficrus

Andrena nigriceps

Andrena bimaculata

Andrena nigrospina

Andrena pilipes

Andrena fulvago

Andrena humilis

Andrena niveata

Andrena ovatula

Andrena similis

Andrena wilkella

Lasioglossum parvulum

Lasioglossum punctatissimum

Sphecodes pellucidus

Sphecodes puncticeps

Dufourea halictula

Dufourea minuta

Megachile centuncularis

Megachile ligniseca

Megachile versicolor

Megachile willughbiella

Coelioxys elongata

Coelioxys inermis

Coelioxys mandibularis

Coelioxys rufescens

Nomada fulvicornis

Nomada integra

Nomada marshamella

Nomada panzeri

Nomada striata

Atlas of bees, wasps & ants of Shropshire published

BWARS members Nigel Jones and Ian Cheeseborough collaborated on a 13 year project to discover and map the aculeates of Shropshire. The results are summarised in a new publication A provisional atlas of the bees, wasps and ants of Shropshire

The bumblebees of Kent - published.

Kent Field Club have published the Bumblebees of Kent by Nikki Gammans and Geoff Allan. The 170 pages include more than 80 colour photographs and updated distribution maps and species profiles of the bumblebees of Kent

Identification Workshop - An introduction to the Hymenoptera aculeata

An Identification workshop will be held at Dinton Pastures

Details:

An introduction to the Hymenoptera aculeata

Identification Key to Vespoid wasps published

BWARS President, Michael Archer's key to Vespoid wasps has been published by the Royal Entomological Society. This new work contains a well illustrated key, detailed species accounts and colour images of many species.

2014 AGM weekend programme published

Details for the AGM weekend programme have been published here

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Wild bees of Scotland Guide published

Large batch of new images added to species accounts

2014 Bombus hypnorum monitoring - latest map

New videos added to species accounts

59 New species accounts added to the website

Atlas of bees, wasps & ants of Shropshire published

The bumblebees of Kent - published.

Identification Workshop - An introduction to the Hymenoptera aculeata

Identification Key to Vespoid wasps published

2014 AGM weekend programme published

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