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06-07-2009, 08:09 AM
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| | | Help with insect identification please.
This tiny fellow turned up on the raised dry banks of the River Tees in June and was, I think, a type of digger wasp - but which one please.
It had red markings on its body which were visible when it flew but hardly noticable after it had settled as shown in the photograph.
I managed to take a photo using, I think, my Canon G9 as I was really after dippers using my 100 x 400 lens.
Help with identification would be very welcome.
Last edited by brianholland; 06-07-2009 at 08:09 AM.
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06-07-2009, 08:46 AM
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| | | Re: Help with insect identification please.
This one is a cleptoparasitic bee in the genus Nomada, and could be Nomada fabriciana (whose host is Andrena bicolor) |
06-07-2009, 08:47 AM
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| | | Re: Help with insect identification please.
looks like a nomad bee to me 
have a looks on BWARS (Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Scheme) .com and see if anything in the Gallery looks good 
does N. fabriciana get those antennae markings eucera?
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06-07-2009, 10:50 AM
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Originally Posted by eucera  This one is a cleptoparasitic bee in the genus Nomada, and could be Nomada fabriciana (whose host is Andrena bicolor) | Thank you so much for this identification as it fits in so well with what we saw.
Great to be able to give it a name
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06-07-2009, 10:59 AM
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| | | Re: Help with insect identification please.
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Originally Posted by eucera This one is a cleptoparasitic bee in the genus Nomada, and could be Nomada fabriciana (whose host is Andrena bicolor) | I am getting confused as I thought that I had responded to your suggestion.
However thank you for taking the trouble to identify and it is great to be able to give it a name.
It was acting exactly as you described.
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