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Identifying animals on our land (more coming soon)
Ants, Bees and Wasps Beetles Bugs Butterflies Crickets and Grasshoppers Flies Mayflies, Dragonflies and Damselflies Moths Spiders
Amphibians and Reptiles Birds Mammals
Ants, Bees, Wasps & Relatives (7760 species)
Family: Apidae - Bees (260 species)
Patchwork leaf-cutter bee - Megachile centuncularis
Seen a few times on this fence post (poultry/ viewing area fence line)
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Photographed and first ID 24th July 2024

Family: Bombus and Apis - Social bees: Bumble and Honey (25 and 1 species)
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee - Bombus terrestris
Fairly common
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Photographed and first ID 4th August 2024
Common Carder Bee - Bombus pascuorum
Very common
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Photographed and first ID 14th July 2024
Early Bumble Bee - Bombus pratorum
Very common
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Photographed 22nd July 2024 (First ID 8th July)
Honey Bee - Apis mellifera
Very common all over the garden (we have hives on the land)
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Photographed and first ID 29th June 2024
Red tailed Bumble Bee - Bombus lapidarius
Seen occassionally
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Photographed and first ID 24th July 2024
Whte tailed Bumble Bee - Bombus lucorum
Seen occassionally
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Photographed and first ID 16th August 2024
Family: Ichneumonidae - Ichneumon Wasps (2578 species)
Sabre wasp - Rhyssa persuasoria
Seen once on garden log pile
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Photographed and first ID 29th June 2024

Family: Tenthredinidae - Sawflies (Common) (446 species)
Unknown larva
Found on Purple willow in Oak field
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Photographed 16th August 2024 (First ID 30th June)
Figwort Sawfly larva - Tenthredo scrophulariae
Found on Water figwort in Poultry Area
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Photographed 16th August 2024 (First ID 30th June)
Family: Vespidae - Social, Potter and Mason wasps (33 species)
Common wasp - Vespula vulgaris
Very common, nest in Green lane by gate
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Photographed 14th August 2024 (First ID 29th July)
Ruby Tailed Wasp - Chrysis ignita (likely)
Seen once on a log
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Photographed and first ID 27th July 2024
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