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Suggested web pages about bees, wasps and insects - all are well worth a visit:

Links to more pages about solitary bees
Link Wild Bees of Slovenia - A great bees site. Many high quality pictures of bees. Highly informative content in English.
Link Xerces - USA native bee pages. Not many pictures, but a useful introduction to the 4,000 or so native bees of North America.
Link BWARS.com - Bees Wasps and Ants Recording Scheme. Lots more information about hymenoptera. More photos of bees and wasps in the gallery. Helpful forum. All you need to get started in studying bees wasps or ants
Link Hymenoptera Section of the Netherlands Entomological Society - interesting pages in English, containing information about bees and wasps.
Links below: French & German pages translated via Google's translation engine. Click on the links below and the pages should open as translated versions of the original language pages. The English is not brilliant, but it's easy enough to figure out what's being said.

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Balades Naturalists: Fantastic pages! The authors have used a web-cam to put together some excellent descriptions of solitary bee (and other insect) lives. The link opens at a page describing the bee Heriades truncorum. This bee uses tree resin in the construction of its nests. Do take the time to look at the other bees and insects described in these fascinating pages.

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The World of Small Creatures: More fantastic pages! These pages from Germany include some truly remarkable photographs of bees, such as the Wool Carder Bee in territorial fight mode. The content is also very good. Click on the 'Stories' link to see a list of all the insects covered by this amazing site.

Other great pages:


http://www.arthropods.de/themen.htm Absolutely outstanding German pages with excellent information about a range of familiar garden and other bees. Translate these pages using the Google translation tool included in the Google Toolbar - downloadable from > Google Toobar)

Garden Safari.net - Excellent photos on this Dutch web site. All the photos are taken in the author's garden. Content in English.

http://www.bombus.de/cgi-bin/bombus.exe/show?Startseite Good German website Bombus.de containing information and photos of many Bombus species. Use Google Toobar) to translate.

Link My bit of the Planet - a wonderful garden diary from the United Kingdom with loads of photographs of insects, spiders, centipedes and more. A really well presented site. Do take a look.