http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/ BWARS Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:14:32 GMT Adrian Knowles http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3308 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3308 Dear Carol, Anthophora plumipes is a spring-flying species, so can be ruled out here (and also isn't a bumblebee). One or two bumblebees do have all-black Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:09:43 GMT bty293261 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3307 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3307 I just wanted to post that I had a black bumble bee in my living room yesterday,I believe it was the Anthophora plumipes, jet black body and legs and very Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:11:00 GMT Martin Parr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3306 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3306 Thanks Stuart, I'll do my best to get some nice clean shots for any ones that are distinctive then - but will take me a while to get to know enough to tell Tue, 07 Oct 2008 08:56:26 GMT Darrel Watts http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3305 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3305 Hi all, Thanks for this, if the weather perks up I'll try and see if I can observe the whole process from the initial capture through to the final destination Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:57:17 GMT speciesmad http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3304 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3304 Hi all, I also got pics of a wasp chomping a fly last Thursday while we had sun! Flies and all manner of tiny wasps etc visit the Ivy flowers, I see the Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:44:34 GMT Stuart Roberts http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3303 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3303 Don ... Malaxate: Meaning and Definition. (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance I think this is the term in general usage to Mon, 06 Oct 2008 21:31:01 GMT Stuart Roberts http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3302 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3302 RE: [bwars] Re: Wasp ID query - comment Martin ~SNIP~ ... Not really... the maps are based on specimens looked at under the microscope However, if the only Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:06:10 GMT Martin Parr http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3301 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3301 Thanks both for your help here. Had a look at the maps, and looks pretty much like almost any one of the 10 species of Ectemnius could be found NW of London Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:42:51 GMT sten55@... http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3300 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3300 Malaxate - should that not be masticate? Don ... t masticate? Mon, 06 Oct 2008 16:23:18 GMT Alan Phillips http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3299 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3299 ... the nest ... Hi Malcolm/all, Yes, but they chew up (malaxate) the prey before feeding it to the larvae, either at the nest or at the kill site, and in Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:56:16 GMT lib.dvorak http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3298 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3298 Hi Darell. I have similar observations from the Czech Rep. The prey of hornets, observed by myself, could Vespula spp., Apis mellifera, Chrysididae or bigger Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:53:33 GMT Malcolm Storey http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3297 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3297 Hi All, I thought adult worker hornets (and wasps) could only feed on the sugar solution supplied by their larvae and that prey was taken back to the nest to Mon, 06 Oct 2008 11:46:03 GMT Darrel Watts http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3296 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3296 Hi all, We've got a plant of the late flowering Escallonia bifida, and I've noticed that Hornets (and other social wasps?) use a very interesting hunting Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:17:12 GMT lib.dvorak http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3295 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3295 Dear John, nice pics! Your hornet is Vespa crabro gribodoi (= V.c. vextor), endemic form for Britain. Vespa velutina is largely blackish species. Libor ... Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:01:22 GMT haideerane http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3294 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/3294 On a recent (end of September 2008) visit to Felbrigg Hall in Norfolk, I looked round the walled garden, in particular the once abandoned area now being reused