Two English bees from Cambridgeshire, please (1 Viewer)

[colincurry]

I have gone through Brock for this first one and found some similar bees: Andrena fuscipes, Heather Mining Bee; Andrena scotica, Chocolate Mining Bee; and Bombus humilis, Brown-banded Carder Bumble Bee although might be the wrong area for this.





And then there was this one....



Thanks

Colin

 

[Ficedula]

I have gone through Brock for this first one and found some similar bees: Andrena fuscipes, Heather Mining Bee; Andrena scotica, Chocolate Mining Bee; and Bombus humilis, Brown-banded Carder Bumble Bee although might be the wrong area for this.

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And then there was this one....

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Thanks

Colin

Interesting exercise, and suggests to me that comparing photos with photos in a Brock or similar just doesn't work, leastways not to species level. These are B. pascourum and terrestris.

 

[colincurry]

Thanks again.

Colin