Bees and Wasps

Covid-19 lockdowns of 2020 and 2021 did me a favour – I discovered a natural bee bank in the country park about ½km from my back door. I spent many happy hours watching and photographing what was to me the astonishing activity played out on the slope. As a result, I’m now much more interested in Bees and Wasps than I was pre-Covid.

Interested I may be but I’m still a complete beginner at identification. Without the help of the good folks at BWARS I’d be lost. I am indebted to them for much of this content. There are also now a handful of further flung foreigners from Australia and America for whose id. I am indebted mostly to iNaturalist.

Where genus or species is known, these are in alphabetical sequence of binomial name.

Bees

Andrena barbilabris	Andrena bicolor	Andrena bimaculata

Andrena cineraria	Andrena clarkella	Andrena dorsata

Andrena flavipes	Andrena fuscipes	Andrena haemorrhoa

Andrena humilis-fulvago	Andrena labiata	Andrena minutula

Andrena nitida	Andrena praecox	Andrena scotica

Andrena synadelpha	Anthidium Bee	Anthophora bimaculata

Anthophora plumipes male	Anthophora plumipes	Apis mellifera

Bombus hortorum	Bombus hypnorum	Bombus lapidarius

Bombus pascuorum	Bombus pratorum	Bombus sylvestris

Bombus terrestris	Bombus vestalis	Coelioxys conoidea

Coelioxys rufescens	Colletes cunicularius mating	Colletes hederae

Colletes succinctus	Dasypoda hirtipes	Epeolus cruciger

Halictus scabiosae	Halictus subauratus	Homalictus sp

Lasioglossum	Lasioglossum sp	Megachile Leachella

Megachile	Megachile sp	Melecta albifrons

Nomada fabriciana in flight	Nomada fucata	Nomada fulvicornis

Nomada goodeniana	Nomada lathburiana	Nomada Leucophthalma

Nomada Marshamella	Nomada rufipes	Nomada zonata

Osmia bicolor	Osmia bicornis	Osmia caerulescens

Osmia leaiana	Rhodanthidium sticticum	Sphecodes monilicornis

Sphecodes pellucidus	Sphecodes sp	Trachusa sp

Xylocopa violacea-Album	Xylocopa violacea	Xylocopa virginica

Wasps

Abispa sp	Ammophila pubescens

Ammophila sabulosa	Ancistrocerus nigriformis	Anoplius nigerrimus

Anoplius viaticus	Astata boops	Cerceris rybyensis

Crabro peltarius	Diastrophus rubi	Episyron rufipes

Eumenes pomiformis	Evagetes sp	Hedychridium roseum

Hedychrum niemelai	Isodontia mexicana	Lindenius albilabris

Lindenius panzeri	Mellinus arvensis	Oxybelus uniglumis

Philanthus triangulum with Honey Bee	Polistes dominula	Polistes gallicus

Polistes metricus	Polistes sp	Pompilus cinereus

Priocnemis sp	Pseudochrysis neglecta	Sceliphron caementarium

Sceliphron curvatum	Scolia hirta	Trypoxylon politum

Vespa crabro	Vespa velutina	Vespula maculifrons

Ichneumon Wasps

Amblyteles armatorius

Buathra laborator	Campopleginae sp	Diphyus quadripunctatus

Echthrus reluctator	Ichneumon bucculentus	Lissonota lineolaris

Odontocolon dentipes	Ophion obscuratus	Pimpla rufipes

Vulgichneumon brevicinctor