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07-12-2007, 07:44 PM
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| |  Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
I have some bees ands wasps for ID please. 
Bee 1 
Bee 2 
Hornet? 
Bee 4 
Bee 5
Some look a little less common - are any uncommon?
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07-12-2007, 08:07 PM
| | Frozen | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: march, cambridgeshire
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| | | Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
why didnt you rescue the drowning bee?,sorry i cant help with the id dont know. |
07-12-2007, 08:10 PM
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| | | Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
Unfotunately it was too far out, but it was strong and would have made it to the edge, there was also several floating leaves and pondweed.
I have also rescued a 10-spotted ladybird using my collapsed tripod. |
07-12-2007, 08:22 PM
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| | | Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
Your Hornet is a type of hoverfly but that's as far as I can go with the i.ds the last one looks like a honey bee? |
07-12-2007, 08:33 PM
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| | | Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
1.Apis mellifera
2.Carnt see well enough
3.Hoverfly helophilus sp helophilus pendulus
4.Andrena fulva
5.Carnt see well enough |
07-12-2007, 08:38 PM
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Thanks for your replies! It's good to put a name to a photo. Thank you |
07-12-2007, 09:35 PM
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| | | Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
1. Worker Apis mellifera (Honey bee)
2. Female Osmia rufa (Red Mason-bee)
3. Hoverfly Helophilus sp. Could be H. trivittatus but need to see the face!
4. Female Andrena fulva (Tawny Mining-bee)
5. Worker Apis mellifera |
08-12-2007, 06:40 PM
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| |  Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
I think that No 2 is a Leaf Cutter Bee I'll put a photo up for comparison
Duncan.  |
08-12-2007, 06:50 PM
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| | | Re: Bees and Wasps for ID Please!!
Quote:
Originally Posted by eucera  3. Hoverfly Helophilus sp. Could be H. trivittatus but need to see the face! | Abdominal colouration looks more like H. pendulus to me. Towards the tip of the abdomen is different in H.trivittatus. Also H.pendulus has darker tarsi. Although the face would make it easier with H.trivittatus lacking a black stripe down its face. | | |
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