Bees and Wasps on Magog Down
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Bees:
Apis mellifera Honey Bee
Solitary bees:
ssp.
Megachile centuncularis
Panurgus calaratus
Andrena fulva
Osmia rufa		 Blue Osmia
Leaf Cutter Bee
Mining Bee (not confirmed)
Furry, foxy red, digs holes in the ground
Furry, redder than Andrena, ready made holes in banks and plant stems, etc.
Bumblebees:
Bombus agrorum
Bombus lapidarius
Bombus hortorum
Bombus lucorum
Bombus terrestris.
Psithryus campestris		 Carder Bees - both light and dark varieties.
Red-tailed Bumblebee
Garden Bumblebee
White-tailed Bumblebee - bright lemon/yellow stripes
Buff-tailed Bumblebee
Field cuckoo Bee
Wasps:
Social Wasps:
Vespa crabro
Dolichovespula media
Vespular vulgaris
Vespular germanica
Vespular rufus		 Hornet
French Wasp
Common Wasp
German Wasp
Red Wasp
Solitary Wasps:
Odynerus parietum


Pemphredon lugubris 		Wall Mason Wasp
Ruby-tailed Wasps - some thirty species! -
predators of other solitary bees and wasps
Mournful Wasp - a tiny black wasp nesting in bramble stems

Bill Clark
(formerly Warden at Wandlebury)
April 2006
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Updated : 2 May 2006