Bees and Wasps
| Bees: | |
| Apis mellifera | Honey Bee |
| Solitary Bees: | |
| ssp. | Blue Osmia |
| Megachile centuncularis | Leaf Cutter Bee |
| Panurgus calaratus | Mining Bee (not confirmed) |
| Andrena fulva | Furry, foxy red, digs holes in the ground |
| Osmia rufa | Furry, redder than Andrena, ready made holes in banks and plant stems, etc. |
| Bumble Bees: | |
| Bombus agrorum | Carder Bees - both light and dark varieties |
| Bombus lapidarius | Red-tailed Bumblebee |
| Bombus hortorum | Garden Bumblebee |
| Bombus lucorum | White-tailed Bumblebee - bright lemon/yellow stripes |
| Bombus terrestris | Buff-tailed Bumblebee |
| Psithryus campestris | Field cuckoo Bee |
| Wasps: | |
| Social Wasps: | |
| Vespa crabro | Hornet |
| Dolichovespula media | French Wasp |
| Vespular vulgaris | Common Wasp |
| Vespular germanica | German Wasp |
| Vespular rufus | Red Wasp |
| Solitary Wasps: | |
| Odynerus parietum | Wall Mason Wasp |
| Ruby-tailed Wasps - some thirty species! Predators of other solitary bees and wasps | |
| Pemphredon lugubris | Mournful Wasp - a tiny black wasp nesting in bramble stems |
If you like Bees...
T
here were Honey Bees creating a buzz to raise money at our Shelford Feast stall in July 2014