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.

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