http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/ BWARS Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:04:24 GMT Bernard Hocking http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4422 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4422 Hi All 6 Feb 2010.,Bombus terrestris 3 workers on Mahonia at Hayle SW1, one with full pollen loads, also 3 Apis mellifera workers. Bernard ... From: Bernard Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:47:20 GMT Adam Bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4421 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4421 Hi Brian & Stephanie,     Many thanks for bringing those photos to my attention. A couple of questions about them... did the Pemphredon and Trypoxylon cells Sun, 07 Feb 2010 12:57:24 GMT Little http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4420 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4420 Hi Adam, We've come a bit late to this conversation but might be able to help. Stephanie and I are fairly new to stem-nesting species but have had lots of help Sun, 07 Feb 2010 09:19:21 GMT asgrace4 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4419 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4419 Hello Mike, They appear to be very freshly emerged females of the Anthophorine genus Amegilla. There are several possible species and one candidate is Amegilla Sat, 06 Feb 2010 23:21:56 GMT mj_hughes http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4418 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4418 Hi, I saw these bees on holiday in Turkey, they used to come and roost on bits of vine hanging vertically. I've seen some references to bees behaving like this Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:47:09 GMT adam_j_bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4417 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4417 Hi All, Thanks for the ideas with the other photos that are likely to be Hylaeus. I have uploaded another couple of photos into the 'Pre-adult tube nesting Thu, 04 Feb 2010 09:06:29 GMT Adam Bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4416 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4416 Thanks for the photo Maggie, those are the most untidy megachile cells I've ever seen. I guess it really does depend on the shape of the space they're nesting Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:14:35 GMT Maggie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4415 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4415 Hi Adam & Nick, I'll leave you to do the detective work - the tubes were the larger 8mm internal diameter ones intended for red mason bees. Just for Wed, 03 Feb 2010 10:12:11 GMT Adam Bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4414 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4414 Thanks Nick,     Apparently Hylaeus, in contrast to Colletes, impregnate the polyeseter 'cellophane' with some silk as well, but I am not entirely sure Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:43:53 GMT nick.owens86 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4413 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4413 Hi Adam, I recently found some cocoons of what I think is Colletes succinctus which had been exposed when snow dislodged chunks of sandy cliff on Kelling Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:13:56 GMT Adam Bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4412 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4412 Hi Maggie,     I would say you're definately along the right lines. I had guessed a Hylaeus of some kind or other, but hadn't really considered Colletes Tue, 02 Feb 2010 08:48:27 GMT Maggie http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4411 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4411 Hi Adam, Several years ago, on inspecting my red mason bee boxes, I found several tubes glued together with a clear material and there were white larvae within Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:57:50 GMT adam_j_bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4410 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4410 I should add that, for scale, those pre-pupae(?) are around 5-6mm long. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 08:50:31 GMT adam_j_bates http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4409 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4409 Hi All, I am aiming to create a freely available photoguide to the pre-adult stages of tube-nesting aculeate bees and wasps. We are currently taking Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:44:55 GMT Bernard Hocking http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4408 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4408 Hi Steve we have had frost and snow, when it wasn't blowing a gale or raining, very few days that bees could forage since November, so was amazed to see the