16 April 2012  Small bee on Mill Hill. Nomada fucata ?

17 April 2011 Small bee on Mill Hill. Lasioglossum calceatum ?

12 April 2011 Andrena species ? on the Pixie Path (south-north section) Andrena cineraria ?

3 November 2010
Three medium-sized Yellow-footed Solitary Bees, Lasioglossum xanthopus, visited the flowers of the Musk Thistles on a cleared patch on the lower slopes of Mill Hill above the path.
Adur Solitary Bees
 
 

1 August 2010 A worker Tree Wasp, Dolichovespula media, on the Buckingham Cutting area (north of Buckingham Park). PS: this ID could very well be wrong. It could be the Common Wasp, Vespula vulgaris or Vespula germanica Images

A terrier dog barking attracted my attention to the Wasps Nest high in a tree at the top of Buckingham Park, Shoreham. It is the papery nest of the Tree Wasp, Dolichovespula media.  ID by Stuart Roberts on the BWARS Yahoo Group It is a dark brown and yellow wasp, intermediate in size between the Common Wasp and German Wasp and the Hornet. It is a recent colonist of Britain, having spread across England since the mid 1980s. The highly active workers need mainly only carbohydrates. So the adults collect nectar from flowers. For the queen and to feed their young larvae, they hunt many kind of insects like flies and other wasps.

2 July 2010 Unidentified Parasitic Wasp (not a sawfly ?)

21 June 2009
On a breezy mostly overcast day the most interesting observation were twenty or more small bees on the flower heads of the Musk Thistle on the side of the path as it runs past the Reservoir on the southern part of Mill Hill.
 

Perhaps a Megachile sp.	Musk Thistle

21 May 2009 This small bee is a male Nomada species seen on a Dandelion on the Coastal Link Cyclepath.  Probably (but not certainly) Nomada flava.    ID by Stuart Roberts on Flickr Wild Bees of Europe

This bee was identified as such from its antennae. A male Osmia rufa. ID by Stuart Roberts on the official forum of the Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS)

A female Andrena cf. carantonica ID by Stuart Roberts on the BWARS Yahoo Group Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society (BWARS)

14 April 2009 This small bee was spotted at the extreme southern end of the Coastal Link Cyclepath. It is an Andrena species. It looks like Andrena carantonica Suggested ID by Stuart Roberts Common Andrena web page

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