Observations in the Species: Apis mellifera
English Name: Honey Bee
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Observed on: 18th May 2013
Added to iSpot: 18th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
By: Ste Dodd
Observed on: 26th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 14th May 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 1
By: scubamann
Observed on: 29th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 29th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
Description: body of a small (12mm) bee or fly black/brown body and head. A bit fluffy thorax, though the top centre area is a black hard cover.
The antennae look a bit long for a hover fly.
Sorry about the poor quality of the pic's, I have only a compact camera.
Observed on: 21st April 2013
Added to iSpot: 22nd April 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 8
Comments: 1
Description: I can't get down to individual sp. I think the first pic threw me, didn't look like Apis and would also explain the reason I couldn't pinpoint the A sp.
Observed on: 20th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 20th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 7th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 7th April 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 4
Comments: 3
Observed on: 6th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 7th April 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 7th April 2013
Added to iSpot: 7th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 5
Comments: 0
By: w1ldflwrs
Observed on: 16th January 2012
Added to iSpot: 5th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
By: w1ldflwrs
Observed on: 17th January 2012
Added to iSpot: 5th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
By: w1ldflwrs
Observed on: 28th January 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
By: w1ldflwrs
Observed on: 18th January 2012
Added to iSpot: 4th April 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
Observed on: 19th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 20th March 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 6
Comments: 2
Description: could, I suppose, be the same species as my earlier entry but my knowledge is very lacking.
Observed on: 19th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 20th March 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 6
Comments: 0
Observed on: 11th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 7th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Found on a bridge over the River Rhymney after recent flooding, below the bridge was a blockage caused by fallen trees. Very waxy to the touch.
By: littlecleaves
Observed on: 3rd June 2012
Added to iSpot: 5th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 3
Description: Queen removed from aggressive colony.Kept on Oilseed Rape brace honeycomb with emergent Drones but no worker nurse bees.
By: landgirl
Observed on: 4th March 2013
Added to iSpot: 4th March 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 3
Description: My crocuses were covered in bees this afternoon - is it a bit early for them?
Observed on: 18th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 18th February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 9
Comments: 0
Description: On Mahonia japonica
By: bert's uncle
Observed on: 17th February 2013
Added to iSpot: 17th February 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 1
By: Top-roD
Observed on: 11th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 14th February 2013
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 2
Description: Found whilst walking in Notts. Suspended from tree branch at roadside.
Hexagonal construction suggests bees or wasps.
By: TyCarregJS
Observed on: 14th September 2008
Added to iSpot: 30th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
Observed on: 25th July 2012
Added to iSpot: 7th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 6
Comments: 0
Description: I happened to be reading that bees beat their wings over 200 times a second; (to me) this image generates a sense of that.
Observed on: 5th January 2013
Added to iSpot: 5th January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Early flowering rosemary providing some much needed pollen and nectar for the bees
Observed on: 18th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 2nd January 2013
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Flying in and out of a hole in a wall in an old barn in National Trust property. It was a very warm sunny day even though it was only a week before christmas.
Observed on: 27th May 2012
Added to iSpot: 28th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 3
Location: Boultham ParkLat/Lng: 53.2076, -0.5576
OS grid ref: SK964688
Boultham Park, Lincoln
Close Observed on: 24th June 2008
Added to iSpot: 24th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Checking out a hollow small leaved lime, which they eventually used.
Observed on: 15th December 2012
Added to iSpot: 15th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: Inside the hive the bees are in a tight group trying to conserve heat but a slightly warmer day has encouraged a small number of them to come out.
By: lapidarius114
Observed on: 23rd June 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th December 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 1
By: blup
Observed on: 11th November 2012
Added to iSpot: 14th November 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: This is actually a followup to another observation. http://www.ispot.org.uk/node/243073?nav=users_observations
The trunk has now fallen with better access to the hole. Hopefully this will answer any remaining uncertainty about the original id.
Location: Isca StLat/Lng: 53.48, -2.21
OS grid ref: SJ8698
Close Observed on: 6th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 14th October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Honey bee on verbena bonariensis
Observed on: 9th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 7th October 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 9th May 2012
Added to iSpot: 2nd October 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 3
Comments: 0
Location: Perivale WoodLat/Lng: 51.540316447216, -0.32921433448792
OS grid ref: TQ159837
http://www.perivalewood.purplecloud.net/
Close Observed on: 4th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 29th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Entry for the spider is here http://www.ispot.org.uk/node/285046
By: troques
Location: Earlham Road, NorwichLat/Lng: 52.630833333333, 1.2761666666667
OS grid ref: TG218087
On a pear tree against a south facing wall, about 3 ft above ground level.
Close Observed on: 15th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: It looks as though some bees started to build a honeycomb on my pear tree, and then thought better of it. It's quite hidden by foliage so could have been there some time before I noticed it. I would love to know whether this sort of thing happens often?
By: june.greenway@n...
Observed on: 18th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 19th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Black and yellow body, looks like a waspy bee, banding on abdomen, thorax slightly hairy
By: NickBallard
Location: Mill Road CemeteryLat/Lng: 52.2022, 0.1374
OS grid ref: TL461581
Closed Cemetery full of mature ivy and other wild flowers.
Close Observed on: 14th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 19th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
Description: Seeing the BWARS survey, I checked out the ivy locally....This looked different to the usual honey bees.
By: Jane McWeeny
Observed on: 7th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 17th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 0
Comments: 0
Description: There are many hundreds of these insects in my tiny front garden at present, on ivy flowers and japonese anemones as well as the plant in the photos.They are about 1.5cm long, 2 pairs of wings, furry. HQ is accesed under the guttering -presumably they have built something in the loft but I daren't go up and look (though am tempted). They seem completely oblivious to humans - come within inches of myself gardening and passers by.
They look like honey bees to me,- but I've never seen so many together, or heard of them living indoors.
They appeared about 3 weeks ago.
Observed on: 7th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th September 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 1
Comments: 2
Description: Struggling with this one. Originally thought it was a florm of hoverfly, but the waist does not fit.Following research on the BWARS site it seems to point toward a specimen of Andrena sp, possibly Adrena fuscipes, but there is not much heather within the neighbourhood. But I am really unsure as there a number of other possibilities.
Observed on: 7th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 9th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Description: Continuing to catalogue the back garden. Bees feeding on the newly emerging Sedum flowers.
By: sevenoysters
Observed on: 4th September 2012
Added to iSpot: 8th September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Honey Bee perhaps. Three shots of the same bee.
Location: HolywoodLat/Lng: 54.6416, -5.815
OS grid ref: NW539340
Close Observed on: 1st September 2012
Added to iSpot: 1st September 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Description: Found this dead bee and as it kept still got good images of wing venation, pollen basket and mouth.
Observed on: 25th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 26th August 2012
Identifications: 2
Agreements: 3
Comments: 1
Description: Looked like a hoverfly at first, then noticed the patterning and that it didn't hover!
Could it be a Leaf-cutting Bee feeding??
Observed on: 22nd August 2012
Added to iSpot: 24th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 2
By: Tony221268
Observed on: 19th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 20th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 1
Comments: 0
Observed on: 14th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 15th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 2
Description: This tree had a bees' nest in it for several years, but eventually it was abandoned four or five years ago. It had suffered severe wasp assaults, which probably didn't help. It's good to see them back.
Observed on: 14th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 14th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 14th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 14th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 11th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 11th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Observed on: 9th August 2012
Added to iSpot: 10th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 4
Comments: 0
Observed on: 21st July 2012
Added to iSpot: 10th August 2012
Identifications: 1
Agreements: 2
Comments: 0
Species with which Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) interacts
