An updated key to the social Vespine wasps of Great Britain is available here - updated 31 December 2022

An updated corrections file for Eles & Edwards - Handbook of the Bees of the British Isles is available here - updated 31 December 2022

Updated version December 2022. The Vespine key on  the BWARS website has been extensively revised for many of the male characters, most notably the males of V. rufa, V. germanica and V. vulgaris. The markings on these species are very variable and the only reliable way of separating them is by looking at the genitalia of dead specimens, in particular the shape of the central 'tongue' or adeagus.

There have been small alterations elsewhere in the text.

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