Showing posts with label #bee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #bee. Show all posts

Monday, 21 December 2015

Friday, 14 March 2014

Bee update

Managed a few closer shots of bees yesterday. This time I also found on BWARS website (link) the useful tip "fresh workers often have a narrow band of brownish hairs at the base of the white ‘tail’" for B.terrestris. I'm not sure this is even a worker, but I am sure its tail has at least a narrow band of brownish hairs. This one has a lot of passengers! Looking at pics from last year of B.lucorum, it has a very clean tail (see hymenoptera gallery here)



post-script from iRecord

Tuesday, 17 September 2013

Pics - Insects - Hymenoptera

List of Cullaloe's Hymenoptera

Bombus hortorum. Small Garden Bumblebee

12/06/2014

Bombus lapidarius, Large Red-tailed Bumblebee

11/04/2014

Bombus lucorum, White-tailed Bumblebee

2013

05/07/2013
Bombus pascuorum, Carder Bee

26/09/2013

Bombus pastorum, Early Bumblebee

2013

Bombus terrestris, Buff-tailed Bumblebee