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 cineraria | Andrena flavipes |
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| Andrena fuscipes | Andrena labiata | Andrena scotica |
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| Anthidium sp |
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| Anthophora bimaculata | Anthophora plumipes | |
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| Apis mellifera |
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| Bombus pascuorum | Bombus sylvestris | Bombus terrestris | Bombus vestalis |
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| Colletes hederae | Colletes succinctus | Dasypoda hirtipes |
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| Epeolus sp | Lasioglossum sp | Megachile sp |
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| Nomada fulvicornis | Nomada goodeniana | Nomada lathburiana |
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| Nomada Leucophthalma | Nomada Marshamella | Nomada zonata |
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| Osmia bicolor | Osmia bicornis | Rhodanthidium sp |
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| Sphecodes sp | Xylocopa | |
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Wasps
| Ammophila sabulosa | Annoplius viaticus | Cerceris rybyensis |
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| Episyron rufipes | Eumenes pomiformis |
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| Hedychridium roseum | Hedychrum niemelai |
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| Mellinus arvensis | Oxybelus uniglumis |
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| Parasitoid Wasp | Paper Wasp | Sceliphron caementarium |
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| Social_Wasp | Vespa crabro | Vespa velutina |
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