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 sp	Homalictus sp

Lasioglossum	Lasioglossum sp	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 sp	Sphecodes sp

Sphecodes sp	Trachusa sp

Xylocopa violacea		Xylocopa virginica

Wasps

Abispa sp

Ammophila pubescens	Ammophila sabulosa	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

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

Ichneumon bucculentus	Lissonota lineolaris	Odontocolon dentipes

Ophion obscuratus	Pimpla rufipes	Vulgichneumon brevicinctor