http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/ BWARS Sun, 19 May 2013 10:14:59 GMT Stuart Roberts http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8464 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8464 The first looks rather like A. varians and the second is perhaps A. nigroaenea   ... Stuart Roberts Chairman BWARS www.bwars.com Sun, 19 May 2013 10:13:07 GMT nicolas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8463 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8463 Hi can anyone point me in the right direction to identify these two Andrenas photographed at Kelling in Norfolk last week Sun, 19 May 2013 07:58:48 GMT sten55@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8462 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8462 Can't help with the ID but I think it's a nice video! Bee having a wash and brush up. Don ... t is Fri, 17 May 2013 18:49:13 GMT antfoxuk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8461 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8461 Hi Patrick, What you are probably looking at here are "minins". These are first, or at least early, generation workers from a new colony. It is likely that a Fri, 17 May 2013 17:47:58 GMT janevadams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8460 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8460 I'm on holiday in Northern Brittany at the moment and managed to video this Eucera sp male on Bugle today. I just wondered whether anyone could confirm an Fri, 17 May 2013 15:33:28 GMT Patrick Roper http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8459 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8459 I have a small colony of ants in a windowbox in my garden and the workers run down to Lasius niger. However they are only half to two thirds of the size of Thu, 16 May 2013 17:20:05 GMT Matt Smith http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8458 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8458 You can upload the phot to the "photo" area of the group and post the link in here.  Alternatively upload it to something like Photobucket or Flickr and put Thu, 16 May 2013 16:29:50 GMT Jeroen de Rond http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8457 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8457 Louise, has the picture been taken far north of Cambridgeshire? In fact a population of Eucera longicornis is present on the island of Texel, 53.0 degrees Thu, 16 May 2013 15:00:22 GMT LOUISE BACON http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8456 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8456 Dear all   I work at the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Environmental Records centre, and recently we have had a photograph of a bee sent to us, which he has Wed, 15 May 2013 14:46:47 GMT Jane Adams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8455 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8455 Here is a short link, if it is easier http://ow.ly/l3tiO Jane ... Jane Adams Online Marketing Consultant Tel: 01202 692405 Email: janevadams@... Wed, 15 May 2013 10:29:48 GMT l_hebdon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8454 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8454 Thanks Jane, much easier to find,all thirteen leaflets, on that link. leslie Tue, 14 May 2013 14:18:52 GMT Jane Adams http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8453 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8453 This link http://www.foe.co.uk/search_results.html?cx=001127977917864091225%3Animbyc0r soe Mon, 13 May 2013 21:31:23 GMT l_hebdon http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8452 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8452 Dear All The finished leaflets for the 'Iconic Bee' project are now available as.pdfs(info about the project is in forum message#8292-Feb 8th 2013)I found a Mon, 13 May 2013 05:17:00 GMT David (Dioctria) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8451 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8451 http://patrikacards.com/niuwd.php Sat, 11 May 2013 11:07:39 GMT Chris Rose http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8450 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/message/8450 Thanks Stuart.I have found a photo on the BWARS website for a male which matches exactly. Most of the images are of females. I'll go back to the key now and