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.
Where genus or species is known, these are in alphabetical sequence of binomial name.
Bees
Andrena bicolor | Andrena bimaculata | Andrena cineraria |
Andrena clarkella | Andrena flavipes | Andrena fuscipes |
Andrena labiata | Andrena scotica |
Anthidium Bee |
Anthophora bimaculata | Anthophora plumipes | Anthophora plumipes male |
Apis mellifera |
Bombus hortorum | Bombus lapidarius | Bombus pascuorum |
Bombus pratorum | Bombus sylvestris |
Bombus terrestris-jAlbum | Bombus vestalis |
Coelioxys conoidea | Coelioxys rufescens |
Colletes cunicularius | Colletes hederae | Colletes succinctus |
Dasypoda hirtipes | Epeolus cruciger |
Lasioglossum (morio group) | Lasioglossum sp |
Megachile sp | |
Nomada fabriciana | Nomada fulvicornis | Nomada goodeniana |
Nomada lathburiana | Nomada Leucophthalma |
Nomada Marshamella | Nomada zonata |
Osmia bicolor | Osmia bicornis |
Rhodanthidium sp |
Sphecodes sp | |
Trachusa sp | Xylocopa violacea |
Wasps
Ammophila sabulosa | Ammophila sp | Anoplius nigerrimus |
Anoplius viaticus | Astata boops | Cerceris rybyensis |
Crabro peltarius | Episyron rufipes | Eumenes pomiformis |
Evagetes sp | Hedychridium roseum | Hedychrum niemelai |
Lindenius albilabris | Lindenius panzeri | Mellinus arvensis |
Oxybelus uniglumis | Philanthus triangulum | Polistes gallicus |
Pompilus cinereus | Priocnemis sp | Pseudochrysis neglecta |
Sceliphron caementarium | Social Wasp | Vespa crabro |
Vespa velutina |
Ichneumon Wasps
Amblyteles armatorius | Buathra laborator | Ichneumon bucculentus |
Lissonota lineolaris | Odontocolon dentipes | Ophion obscuratus |
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