Bees of Surrey

The introduction includes chapters on; The history of aculeate recording in Surrey; The survey; Changes in the bee fauna; Comparisons with other counties; Habitats and bee associations; Important sites for bees; Bee conservation and biodiversity; Finding bees; Bees nesting; Gardening for bees; Identifying bees; Predators and parasites; Sociality in bees. This is followed by a key to the bee genera.The main part of the book consists of species accounts of each of the 222 species recorded in Surrey (out of the 250 species found in the UK). These accounts give the national and Surrey status, as well as the status in 1900. After a brief description of each species there is an account of its autecology in Surrey with a distribution map (on a tetrad basis) and how its status has changed since 1900. It includes reference to Lasioglossum sexstrigatum, the bee found new to Britain in 2008.