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28-04-2010, 07:21 PM
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| | | Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
Can anyone positively identify the bee in these two photos. I photographed it after it buzzed into my conservatory.  
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28-04-2010, 07:32 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
I think it is a fly of some sort rather than bee but what sort i have no idea.
ian |
28-04-2010, 07:32 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
Not a bee, but a Bee fly, Bombylius major, a mimic cleptoparasite of mining bees, Andrena spp. |
28-04-2010, 08:32 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
Thank you for the early response. I will look up the Bee Fly.
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28-04-2010, 08:43 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
Thank you Aeshna5. That is exactly what it is.
Not such a good thing then to have in a garden with Espalier Apple trees trained along bamboo canes with a couple of solitary bees going in and out of the holes at the end of the canes.
Should I kill the Bee Fly if I get chance? I don't think I would like to do that; but.....!
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29-04-2010, 04:39 AM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
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Originally Posted by riverdancer  Thank you Aeshna5. That is exactly what it is.
Not such a good thing then to have in a garden with Espalier Apple trees trained along bamboo canes with a couple of solitary bees going in and out of the holes at the end of the canes.
Should I kill the Bee Fly if I get chance? I don't think I would like to do that; but.....!
riverdancer | No you should leave it alone- they are just part of the native ecosystem!  |
29-04-2010, 06:59 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
In any case, it parasitises mining bees (ground-nesters) rather than bees that nest in canes. |
11-04-2011, 05:28 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
I too have just had one (dead) show up in our conservatory. Do they sting?
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11-04-2011, 05:29 PM
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| |  Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
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Originally Posted by oxfordblue I too have just had one (dead) show up in our conservatory. Do they sting?
Oxfordblue | Totally harmless to us (no sting). |
11-04-2011, 05:33 PM
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| | | Re: Unidentified bee photographed by riverdancer
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Originally Posted by aeshna5 Totally harmless to us (no sting). | That long forward pointing feeding tube is often mistaken for a 'sting'. | | |
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