Aug 31, 2023
Ladies first! Here I will explore the Wool carder (Anthidium manicatum) (Megachilidae: Anthidiin) females’ behaviour, nesting etc. and then go on to the males. Unusually for solitary bees, female wool carder bees, are smaller than males and females...
Aug 25, 2022
Hairy yellow-face bee ( Hylaeus hyalinatus) I am assuming that this is the species! She nested inside a common yellow face bee (H. communis) nesting cavity. Looking at the BWARS site and Falk’s book ( links below) along with her two ‘shoulder...
Nov 1, 2021
Gasteruption jaculator and the hylaeus bee battle inside a nurturing nature nest box Since having common yellow face bees (Hylaues communis) nesting in my nest boxes, the alien-looking Gasteruption jaculator is a regular visitor with numbers increasing as the common...
Sep 21, 2021
Fork-tailed flower bee (Anthrophora furcata) Although I have had the hairy-footed flower bee (Anthrophora plumipes) in my garden feeding upon lungwort,(Pulmonaria) I have not seen the fork-tailed flower bee here at all. It’s obvious when you see the hairy-footed...
Sep 9, 2021
A Premiership for wildlife and ecology! Earlier this year, I was invited to visit the Manchester City Training Ground being shown around by Karl Horne, the idverde UK biodiversity advisor and his supervisor Daniel Lewis. The area is managed for wildlife by idverde UK...
Jul 11, 2021
Solitary wasp as an aphid pest controller! Don’t spray your plants to be rid of aphids. Leave it to the natural aphid controllers. Not all wasps sting us! In fact, most do not. They never show any interest in humans whatsoever. Yet they have such a bad name...
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