Ants, bees and wasps

Ants, bees and wasps are all members of the order 'Hymenoptera': insects generally with two pairs of wings, and second only to the beetles (Coleoptera) in terms of numbers of species. There's a society dedicated to them at Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society

The list below contains the species of solitary bees known from the Wildspace area (other hymenoptera lists to be added soon). Solitary bees actually make up 95% of the total of bee species known in the UK. As fairly conspicuous insects, the great majority have common names as well as Latin ones - and what a fine range of names they are!

For more about Wildspace solitary bees, check out this poster, produced by Mark Welch

If you would like to see what they look like, go to the website of the National Biodiversity Network and type the Binomial name of the species into the 'Search for Taxa' box. Or simply use Google search.

Logging species is an important aspect of our work in Ely Wildspace. If you would like to find out more please visit our page on Biological Recording