A few bees for confirmation/identification

[Johnny81]

Well I am out of uni with an illness so what better way to spend the day then clean up my unnamed files. Some pics OK some not so OK. Bees always confuse me a little, despite how much I read up on them. Here is a selection taken over the past 2 years, all Northamptonshire.

1. Bombus lucorum?

2. Queen B. Lapidarius? Taken last month.

3. Queen B. Lapidarius? Taken last month.

4. Unsure Taken late August last year.

5. Unsure

6. Male B. Lapidarius? Taken later in the year 2010.


Many Thanks

[eucera]

1) Male B. lucorum agg
2) Female B. ?rupestris (the wings look very dark to me)
3) Queen B. lapidarius
4) faded Male B. lapidarius
5) male B. vestalis or B. bohemicus
6) Male B. lapidarius

[Johnny81]

Many thanks. I need to get my head around those cuckoo bees.. from pictures I cant always tell from how much hairs are on the legs.