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 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