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06-04-2010, 05:59 PM
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| | | ID pls for skinny bee, short bee and a non bee?
Am going round in circles - so many lovely new things in the garden today but getting addled trying to identify them! Pls wld somebody be lovely and tell me what these are? This one was very delicate -  
And this was just quite small and stubby - [url=http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/archive/showphoto.php?photo=125679]  [/url
And this... heaven knows!  |
06-04-2010, 06:36 PM
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| | | Re: ID pls for skinny bee, short bee and a non bee?
Evening Dilly,
Nice to see you're getting a lot of invertebrates! I can't help on the bee, but the beetle looks a lot like the Cereal Leaf Beetle, Oulema melanopa to me - same coloured elytra, pronotum, femora, tibia and tarsi ( like shoes!  ). The antennae are also 11-segmented, and the beetle is well-distributed across the UK.
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06-04-2010, 08:11 PM
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| | | Re: ID pls for skinny bee, short bee and a non bee?
I agree. Cereal Leaf Beetle - I've had them in my garden this week as well! |
06-04-2010, 08:27 PM
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| | | Re: ID pls for skinny bee, short bee and a non bee?
Leave the beetle as Oulema melanopa/rufocyanea agg. its indistinguishable from the other species without genital examination. |
07-04-2010, 06:43 AM
| | Officer of the Wild Empire | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Near the Brownwich and Chilling cliffs
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| | | Re: ID pls for skinny bee, short bee and a non bee?
Many thanks Jason, Tigger and Dogghound! It is SO nice to know you're out there (as well as all these wonderful creatures)! |
08-06-2010, 05:13 PM
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| | | Re: ID pls for skinny bee, short bee and a non bee?
Your "skinny bee" looks like 2 different species - compare the antennae in the 2 photos - I think the first is probably a Lasioglossum and the second a male Andrena (much hairier).
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