Bees and Wasps – A huge family of insects, and I've hardly started, but a nightmare to correctly identify…..



Common Hornet (Vespa crabro)
Common Hornet (Vespa crabro)
Oriental Hornet (Vespa orientalis)
Oriental Hornet (Vespa orientalis)
4 spotted digger wasp (C. quadrimaculatus)
4 spotted digger wasp (C. quadrimaculatus)
Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Red-tailed bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Common Carder (Bombus pascuorum)
Cuckoo Bee (Sphecodes sp.)
Cuckoo Bee (Sphecodes sp.)
Mining Bee (Andrena praecox)
Mining Bee (Andrena praecox)
Mining Bee (Andrena praecox)
Mining Bee (Andrena praecox)
Violet Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea)
Violet Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa violacea)