Very useful illustrated guide to Bee Morphology/Jargon
leptinotarsa.github.io/glossary_test/… Author wants feedback on what is missing, edits, corrections, additions

A group of spider ants (Leptomyrmex sp.) hunting a poney ant (Rhytidoponera sp.). PNG 🇵🇬 2023.

The ectoparasitoid wasp Heterospilus sicanus is redescribed and illustrated based on the holotype of Dendrosoter sicanus and on recently collected material from its type locality. Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/zookey…

#wasps #parasitoids #taxonomy

We've teamed up with Aberdeenshire Council #NESBReC for a Bumblebee Conservation Trust webinar on rare bumblebees in NE Scotland on Friday. We'll look at Blaeberry, Broken-belted & Moss carders & how to tell them from similar species. Get your FREE ticket before sales end!
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A new ant species is documented from Sichuan Province, China, marking the first recorded instance of the genus Manica in China.

Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97…

#ants #taxonomy #newspecies

Join our #ChangingChalk Conservation Officer, Alice, for a morning learning how to survey Potter Flower Bees!

🗓️ Tuesday 14 May
🕖 10:00–12:30
📌 Seaford Head Nature Reserve, BN25 4JQ

To book your place or for more information please email [email protected]

99.96% of bee species do not die after stinging – why does everyone think they do?

🐝 As James B Dorey (@UOW) + colleagues (@westernsydneyu, University of Sydney) write, most bees can sting as often as they want – but there’s more to it than that. theconversation.com/most-bees-dont…

The first known host of the brachypterous parasitoid wasp Olixon testaceum is identified as an Anaxipha cricket, through the DNA barcoding of six Olixon larvae and their hosts.

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#wasp #taxonomy #hymenoptera

This is Mesocrina chandleri, a new species of the small Holarctic braconid genus Mesocrina. Find out more about it here: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97…

#DNAbarcoding #newspecies #taxonomy University of Oxford @Naturalis_sci

Two new species of the wasp genus Trypoxylon from Yunnan Province, China, are described and illustrated. Find out more about them here: jhr.pensoft.net/issue/4731/

#newspecies #taxonomy #Hymenoptera

Don't forget to join us for #SolitaryBeeHour on May 1 at 1300 as we once again celebrate the wonderful world of #SolitaryBees !

A great opportunity to share your images, favourite facts & general love of the 'loners', now they are firmly back in our lives for another year 😍

Have you walked your April #BeeWalk yet? There's still time to fit it in... Get in touch for BeeWalk advice!

It's spring in the #Cairngorms ! 8 queens (3 species) today on my BeeWalk, on yellow archangel, ground-ivy & blaeberry and nest searching. A lovely way to spend an hour!

One species of parasitic wasp is described as new to science. Find out more about it in this research article: doi.org/10.3897/zookey…

#Chalcidoidea #newspecies #parasitoids

A parasitoid wasp species in the genus Monoctonus is recorded as new to science from South Korea. Find out more about it here: doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12…

#DNAbarcoding #wasps #taxonomy Univerzitet u Beogradu Centre for Biodiversity Genomics (CBG)

A review and assessment of the research career of Justin O. Schmidt (1947–2023): doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97…

After reviewing available literature, identifying over 382,000 specimens from different collections, and running field expeditions, this team of researchers has compiled a list of the known ant species of the Galápagos Islands: doi.org/10.3897/zookey…

🧬🐝 #DNAbarcoding in five #Hymenoptera families in Germany revealed unexpectedly high high BIN diversity, which suggests a higher-than-expected species diversity. Find out more here: doi.org/10.3897/zookey…

An investigation into the relationships of Western Palearctic and Nearctic Cotesia wasps that spin aggregated cocoons in the shape of a ball, with the description of one new species: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97…

A new ichneumon wasp species was discovered in the rare genus Pseudalomya. Find out more about it here: doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97…

#taxonomy #phylogeny #newspecies Hsuan-Pu Chen なみきく土也 東京都立大学 広報担当

After reviewing 5,886 specimens and extracting 279 additional data from literature sources, researchers have compiled a comprehensive review of Corsican bees in the family Megachilidae - see it at doi.org/10.3897/jhr.97…