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    New Lancs Wildlife Trust Blog

    Haha! Thanks. Manchester is pretty wild already :smilielol5:
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    New Lancs Wildlife Trust Blog

    The cleptoparasites are my favourite kind of bees! Sneaky bees.
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    Wasp or Bee

    Wasp sizes are extremely variable, I have some really tiny Vespula vulgaris workers. Sounds like social wasps to me. Esp excavating and being seen carrying the insulation away. A photo would help though.
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    New Lancs Wildlife Trust Blog

    New blog up. https://www.lancswt.org.uk/blog/karen-mccartney/midsummer-bees-and-wasps
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    Native bees and wasps

    Keep at it. Having a try yourself is the best way to learn. Some pointers - Andrena have a pair of grooves at the side of the eye (facial fovae) which are more obvious in females and although dark in this image you can just see a slight change in the dark in that area where the dark, velvety...
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    Native bees and wasps

    Andrena dorsata - one of the mining bees.
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    Bees in garage

    Osmia bicornis - red mason bees are solitary bees but in suitable places they will happily nest together but that's as far as the interaction goes. Each will construct and tend her own nest alone. They use existing holes and do not excavate so will not damage your structure. For more information...
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    The Sting in the Tail

    Serian Sumner is one of my wasp heros.
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    Hello from Scotland

    Remember when the bees bearded after a hot day and someone from the forum who was local had to come out and stand with me to put an entrance block in?
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    Another one for Caz

    Lovely. Have yet to see one.
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    Native bees and wasps

    Any time :) The cuckoos are some of my favourite bees. We have a number of solitary cuckoo species too. Fascinating life cycles. Love a sneaky bee ;)
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    Native bees and wasps

    Bombus vestalis female. You can see the yellow flashes above the white tail. Buff tails can often have a faint buff line above a white tail sometimes in workers but never this amount. This species is a cuckoo of Bombus terrestris - buff tails. The mites don't feed from the bee directly, the...
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    Early summer bees and wasps blog for Lancs Wildlife Trust.

    Thank you. I'll be doing one each month until the season is over so more to come!
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    Advice on bees nest please

    I never get them nesting here unfortunately but I love to watch them and have loved the sound of them buzz pollinating the dog roses above my head while I have my morning coffee in the garden. They are lovely.
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