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

Anthidium Bee	Anthophora bimaculata	Anthophora plumipes male

Anthophora plumipes	Apis mellifera	Bombus hortorum

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	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 zonata	Osmia bicolor

Osmia bicornis	Osmia caerulescens	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	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