BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK)

HYMENOPTERA (bees, wasps, ants, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

Records (and photo sets)

Taxon Summary Date Vice-county Country #photos #macrophotos
Hymenoptera 15 April 2004 South Devon England 1
Hymenoptera 15 April 2004 South Devon England 1 1
Hymenoptera Imago 21 July 2002 Berks England 4
Hymenoptera Imago 28 July 2001 Berks England 1

Subtaxa

Rank Taxon #subtaxa #photos #macrophotos #microphotos #refs #webs
Suborder APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids) 687          
Section (Zoo.) Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants) 433 373 306 4 83 773
Section (Zoo.) Parasitica (parasitoid wasps) 254 111 173 1 58 452
Suborder SYMPHYTA (sawflies) 451 263 216 3 37 1046

Suggested Literature

Identification Works

Micropics: http://micropics.org.uk/ Web Site/Page
Goulet, H & Huber, J.T. Book/Report
Richards, O.W., 1956 Hymenoptera: Introduction and Keys to Familes
Sauer, F., 1985 Bienen, Wespen und Verwandte
Skidmore, P., 1991 Insects of the British Cow-Dung Community
Stubbs, F.B. (Editor), 1986 Provisional Keys to British Plant Galls
Zahradík, J. & Severa, F. (illust.), 1991 A Field Guide in Colour to Bees and wasps

General Works

BWARS (Bees, Wasps and Ants Recording Society) discussion group: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/bwars/join E-forum
Alexander, K.N.A., 2002 The Invertebrates of Living and Decaying Timber in Britain and Ireland - a Provisional Annotated Checklist
Betts, C. (ed.), 1986 The Hymenopterist's Handbook
Step, E., 1932 Bees, Wasps, Ants and Allied Insects of the British Isles

HYMENOPTERA may also be covered by literature listed under:

BIOTA
(living things)
Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)
ANIMALIA
(animals)
ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)
HEXAPODA
(hexapods)
INSECTA
(insects)

Feeding and other inter-species relationships

HYMENOPTERA is associated with:

Photos Phallus hadriani - Sand Stinkhorn, Dune Stinkhorn (Phallales: Phallaceae) feeds on spore mass of fruitbody UK/Ireland Shaw, D.E. & Roberts, P., 2002

Associated with HYMENOPTERA:

is parasitoid host of solitary (usually) stroma Cordyceps sphecocephala - an ascomycete (Hypocreales: Clavicipitaceae) Dennis, R.W.G., 1978
Photos adult adult is predated by leaf Pinguicula vulgaris - Common Butterwort (Lentibulariaceae) Major Darwin, C., 1875 [minute spp. (page 370)]

Hymenoptera may be associated with more taxa listed at higher taxonomic level

ANIMALIA
(animals)
INSECTA
(insects)

References

Darwin, C., 1875 Insectivorous Plants
Dennis, R.W.G., 1978 British Ascomycetes
Shaw, D.E. & Roberts, P., 2002 Bees and Phalloid Exudate

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