Tim Strudwick

Entomologist, sometimes birder, pan species recorder, nature reserve manager

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@BylinesEast Looks like this workshop is about domestic honey bees rather than wild bees which is a shame.

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@IreneBoston2 @NorfolkWT @bwars2000 I had to look up the common name, but yes orange-legged furrow bee, Halictus rubicundus.

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@StevenFalk1 How about this one? On thyme at Middle Harling Heath.

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@StevenFalk1 How about this one? On thyme at Middle Harling Heath.

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@B_Strawbridge Coelioxys rufescens/rufescent sharp-tailed bee I believe. Very nice.

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@whistling_joe @RSPBMinsmere @StevenFalk1 @WaspWoman @RSPBEngland @Natures_Voice @Buzz_dont_tweet @RoyEntSoc Yes, C. quinquefasciata for sure. Great video.

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@NorfolkNats @ElyClive @WWTWelney @VannaBartlett1 I think it is a rather worn A. praecox.

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@Chris_Lansdell @StevenFalk1 @NorfolkNats Excellent Chris. The most easterly yet in Norfolk and a new 10km square.

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@andymus1 @graemelyons @BerryTylan @chalkspring @ecology_digest @BritishSpiders Does look just like filamentous algae which can resemble a nursery web when sun bleached, a definitely nitrogen rich water.

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@StevenFalk1 @PaulEele @olds_liam @bwars2000 Dune slacks at Holkham, hybrid poplar plantation in Brecks.

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@StevenFalk1 @PaulEele @olds_liam @bwars2000 S. crassicornis has indeed turned up at Holkham this year, the second Norfolk record after one at West Harling last year.

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@norfolkbirdtour Nomada argentata was recorded at Warham in 2020, but still a good record. M. haemorrhoidalis has not been seen at that site before.

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@NHarnser @NorfolkNats @JWentomologist Yes it is.

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@andymus1 All the Norfolk females in my collection are afzeliella.Have you seen any ovatula s.s.?

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@rachelebower @NorfolkWildlife @NorfolkWT @savebutterflies @SBBT_Papilio Several species of ichneumonid wasp are documented as parasitising larvae and probably regulate the population. Trogus lapidator is a specialist parasite of swallowtails.

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@tim_holt_wilson @NorfolkWT @bwars2000 Colletes hederae.

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@andymus1 It is probably the most common Chrysis sp in the Brecks!

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@andymus1 @DeepdaleFarm I think there are 2 or 3 previous records.

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@tim_holt_wilson @RSPB_Strumpshaw The wasp is Mellinus arvensis.

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@JosephineBlogg1 @NorfolkNats @Buzz_dont_tweet I can see a strong step in profile at the second sternite so will be A. nigricornis.