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Suggested web pages
about bees, wasps and insects - all are well worth a visit:
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Links to more pages about solitary bees |
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Wild Bees of Slovenia - A
great bees site. Many high quality pictures of bees. Highly informative
content in English. |
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Xerces -
USA native bee pages. Not many pictures, but a useful introduction to the
4,000 or so native bees of North America. |
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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 |
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Hymenoptera
Section of the Netherlands Entomological Society - interesting pages in
English, containing information about bees and wasps. |
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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
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Other great pages:
Bumblebee Conservation
Trust Helping to preserve Britain's bumblebees - they are greatly under
threat and have declined catastrophically in recent decades.
http://www.thehoneybeeconservancy.org/The_Hive.html A useful site for
anyone interested in bee conservation in North America
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.
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