http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/ BWARS Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:56:43 GMT Tiiu http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4326 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4326 Hello, the chrysid on the picture belongs to the genus Chrysura and it is a female specimen. My best guess is that the species is Chrysura hirsuta but I can't Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:38:52 GMT Adrian http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4325 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4325 What has happened to the polls? Did we get an answer to the ant one? More! Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:34:22 GMT Adrian http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4324 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4324 Dear Jean, Reading you loud and clear! These are really tricky if not impossible to do from photos. There is a Handbook produced by the Royal Entomological Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:52:01 GMT jungle4042 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4323 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4323 Dear All, I am very new to this service. I have some photos of the two wasps mentioned above. Both were found in my conservatory in Devon in August. Is there Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:50:15 GMT jungle4042 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4322 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4322 Dear All, I am very new to this service. I have some photos of the two wasps mentioned above. Both were found in my conservatory in Devon in August. Is there Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:09:36 GMT Bernard Hocking http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4321 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4321 Hi Steve nothing as much as you've seen at Windsor, down here in West Cornwall, wind has been a limiting factor though warm. B. ter Qs with pollen loads on Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:59:51 GMT Steve Farmer http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4320 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4320 Hallo Stuart and other bumblebee watchers The continuing very mild late autumn weather has produced some intersting bumblebee sightings recently. At Windsor Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:04:48 GMT nick.owens86 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4319 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4319 Thanks for the reply Andrew. I did not see more than one Ancistrocerus at one time, and had the impression that the same wasp was making repeat visits. I will Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:08:53 GMT stephenplantphotography http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4318 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4318 Hello all, I know it isn't easy from photo's but can anyone confirm that Nomada in the photo here : Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:13:28 GMT asgrace4 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4317 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4317 Very interesting Nick, I posted a photo of an Ancistrocerus 'chewing' rolled up portions of Purple Toadflax several years ago. I think it was A. trifasciatus Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:31:05 GMT Nicolas Vereecken http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4316 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4316 Mating frenzy at its finest! This behaviour is indeed typically found in Europe e.g. in different Colletes species, some Andrenids as well. To witness this Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:26:22 GMT cdavid http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4315 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4315 Dear Alan I am surprised that David Attenborough implies that the male bees sting their rivals. Their behaviour seems similar, but more extreme, than that of Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:19:07 GMT Alan Phillips http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4314 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4314 http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8354000/8354788.stm Great footage from the BBC series Life. Alan Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:26:47 GMT nick.owens86 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4313 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4313 I have posted three photos of Ancistrocerus sp (identified by Tim Strudwick)taken at Weybourne North Norfolk in August. It was extracting a caterpillar rolled Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:25:24 GMT jon.mortin http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4312 http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/4312 Thanks Alan Yes it probably had been dead a while. I thought maybe D.sylvestris but the very red clypeus confused me and I thought it might be something else.