Hi  all

Small bees (& small cellsize) were originally mentioned to me by Beo Cooper
probably about 30 years ago. He mentioned odd individual colonies in various
places in the midlands, Lincolnshire springs specifically to mind as he
talked of several sites there, although I never visited any of them myself.

I have had one colony that had notable small totally black and shiny bees
myself, I have had reports of small bees in odd individual colonies from
Murray (bear in mind he has large numbers of colonies), I had never heard of
a pocket of colonies of such bees in Scotland.

Although I do not have Beo's records I reckon the cellsize involved was
about 5.00 mm. All in all the total number of such naturally occuring small
celled colonies that I have been told about is somewhere between a dozen and
twenty, not exactly commonplace.

Best Regards & 73s, Dave Cushman... G8MZY
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