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General Insect Gallery - Page 3: Wasps, Ants & Bees |
Class: Insecta Order: Hymenoptera |
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A selection of wasps, ants and bees found in Britain and Northern Europe . . . . . . | |
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 Wood Wasp or Horntail (Urocerus gigas) - see image below for details This female horntail was captured by Mark Littlewood and photographed by his 3 year old daughter, Violet (21/07/2006 Cambridgeshire, UK) Photo: V. Littlewood © | |
 Wood Wasp or Horntail (Urocerus gigas) length 40-60 mm Female with a stout ovipositor at the tail-end which is used like a drill for laying eggs in the wood of pine trees Photo: C. Love © |
 German Wasp (Vespula germanica) length up to 25 mm Queen foraging on Cotoneaster flowers |
 European Hornet (Vespa crabro) length up to 40 mm Photo: J. Myers © |
 European Hornet (Vespa crabro) length up to 40 mm Photo: Thor Taylor Photography © |
 'Face to face' with the European Hornet (Vespa crabro) Front view of the head with jaws, antennae & dorsal cluster of simple eyes between the lateral pair of compound eyes Photo: Thor Taylor Photography © |
 European Hornet (Vespa crabro) Close-up of the characteristic colour pattern on the head, thorax and basal part of the abdomen Photo: Thor Taylor Photography © |
 Typical nesting site of the European Hornet (Vespa crabro) Workers at their nest entrance in a hollow tree trunk Photo: B. James © |
 Nest of a Social Wasp (Vespula sp.) Hanging in the roof-space of a building Photo: S. Lothian © |
 Nest of the Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris) Hanging from the branch of a hawthorn tree with the entrance hole at the bottom Photo: G. Thompson © |
 Brood cells of the Tree Wasp (Dolichovespula sylvestris) Outer covering of the nest removed to show the brood cells containing grubs and pupae Photo: G. Thompson © |
 Yellow Garden Ant (Lasius flavus) length up to 7 mm Winged males and females emerging from their nest in a garden lawn - the smaller yellow-brown ants are workers |
 Nest mound of the Yellow Garden Ant (Lasius flavus) Mound of soil excavated by the worker ants from their underground nesting chambers and tunnels |
 Solitary Mining Bee (Andrena haemorrhoa) length 10-12 mm Female resting on a leaf |
 Buff-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) length up to 30 mm Queen foraging on heather flowers |
 White-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lucorum) length up to 30 mm Worker foraging on lupin flowers Photo: FreeFoto - I. Britton © |
 Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum) length up to 18 mm Male foraging on thistle flower |
 Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) length up to 30 mm Queen resting on hawksbeard flower |
 Red-tailed Bumblebee (Bombus lapidarius) length up to 20 mm Male foraging on thistle flower |
 Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) length 12-15 mm Worker resting on apple blossom |
 Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) length 12-15 mm Worker foraging on Campanula flowers |
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