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-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	Ichneumon bucculentus	Lissonota lineolaris

Odontocolon dentipes	Ophion obscuratus	Pimpla rufipes

Vulgichneumon brevicinctor