ABOUT THIS PROJECT
The project was established to document distribution and occurrences of Aculeates in Hong Kong, except Ants (Formicidae). Please add observations in the following taxa only :
1- Apoidea
2- Apoid wasps (= Ampulicidae + Crabronidae + Sphecidae)
3- Vespoidea (= [Pompilidae + Mutillidae] +Scoliidae + Tiphiidae + Vespidae)
4- Chrysidoidea
For those interested in social wasps check the new edition of my Guide to the Social wasps of Hong Kong: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350912274_Identification_Guide_to_the_Social_Wasps_of_Hong_Kong_Hymenoptera_Vespidae
For a contribution to our knowledge of HK Scoliidae, check our latest paper: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/357271154_A_review_of_the_digger_wasps_Insecta_Hymenoptera_Scoliidae_of_Hong_Kong_with_description_of_one_new_species_and_a_key_to_known_species
31 December 2023: 3717 new observations (total 21249), 9 new species added (total 240). 2023 was better than 2022, and the trend is going up. Hello 2024!
31 December 2022: 3324 new observations (total 17532), 4 new species (total 231). Still going strong, 2022 has been a good year for bees and wasps observations. Looking forward to 2023!
31 December 2021: 4417 new observations (total 14208), 22 new species (227 total). 2021 has been a very good year for bees and wasps observations, thanks to the many contributors. Lets do better in 2022!
04 February 2021: The threshold of 10,000 observations has been passed, amazing!
31 December 2020: 5177 new observations (total 9791), 27 new species (205 total). 2020 has been exceptional in terms of wasps and bees observation shadowing previous numbers. The onset of COVID-19 has probably helped as we headed towards nature rather than urban jungles...Let's keep it up in 2021!
31 December 2019: 1942 observations in 2019 (4614 total), 29 new species (178 total) and lots more people contributing. 2019 has overtaken 2018 as a record year of number of Aculeates recorded, the trend is interesting and I hope 2020 will see more participation. Thanks all for contributing!
31 December 2018 ; 1447 observations in 2018 (2672 total), 29 new species (149 total) and 324 people contributing. 2018 is a record year for Bees and Wasps observations in HK, more than doubling the previous years observations. Great work all!
31 December 2017; 520 observations in 2017 (1225 total), 7 new species (120 total) and 85 people contributing, still going strong! Thanks all for your inputs and looking forward to what lies ahead!
31 December 2016- 705 observations; 113 species of bees and wasps, and 41 people contributing, very nice! 2017 is going to be great.
October 2016 - The contribution to this page has been great, thanks to all of you, 500+observations, 110 species of aculeates since July 2016.
Winter is coming and fewer the species now… it is time to check our archives and post some old observations (if possible)…
Thanks for the great work and let’s keep it up!
Comments
Thank you for creating the project for the Aculeata in Hong kong.
I can help to introduce other local naturalists to join your project and add their observations into it.
To make the process easier, can you modify the project setting to simplify the progress of adding third party's observation.
When I tried to do it last night, a pop up manual appears and require me to fill up extra information about the location, date, GPS coordinates , taxonomic family wit following message. However, all these information has already been provided in the said observation and it's not necessary to fill it twice. I have never created a project but I believe there is an option to remove this step. Perhaps Dr.Kendrick (hkmoths) can provide some advice.
"HK BEES AND WASPS - NON ANT ACULEATES would like you to fill out these fields. Fields marked as "required" must be filled out before you can add an observation to this project. Other fields are optional."
Hi Christopher. Please remove the requirement of asking the member to fill up the data form while adding an observation into the project. It's too time consuming as most of the information has already existed within the observation. Thank you.
Hi sunnetchan,
You're right I have only kept the "Family" level input as a requirement. Thanks for your comment
There is also this booklet by the FEHD: http://www.fehd.gov.hk/english/safefood/handbook_wasps_hk.html
Do you think it's good?
Hi Kal,
Thanks for the reference.
I would take this booklet with a great pinch of salt, ID's of quite a few Aculeates are incorrect and the naming of the Parasitica is problematic has there has been no recent revision on Asian species and most are probably incorrect as they perpetuate errors of the past.
Also there is no reference in the bibliography on work by others locally on Hymenoptera save for the very outdated Hills 1982.
All in all not a good reference at all. Do not use for ID!
Best
Chris
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