
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...
There were Honey Bees creating a buzz to raise money at our Shelford Feast stall in July 2014