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Natural History of Radley

Wasps, bees and ants (hymenoptera)

 

   
   
   

Sawflies (Symphyta)

Bees Wasps and Ants (Apocrita)

ACULEATA (bees, wasps and ants)

Social Wasps (Vespidae)

Bees (Apidae)

(Andrena fulva)

Bumble-bees

 

Digger Wasps (Sphecidae)

Ants (Formicidae)

  • Black Lawn Ant (Lasius niger)
  • Common Red Ant (Myrmica rubra)
 

PARASITICA (parasitoid wasps)

Gall wasps (Cynipidae)

Gasteruptiidae

Ichneumonidae

     

Ichneuman fly, photographed 15 May 2005 by B Crowley

Ichneuman fly on hawthorn leaf (15 May 2005)*

Ichneumon fly, photographed 28 May 2006 by B Crowley

Ichneumon fly (28 May 2006)

 

Argogortes mystaceus, photographed 22 June 2006 by B Crowley, ID and presence confirmed by Ivan Wright

Argogorytes mystaceus

(22 June 2006)*

Hopilitis spinulosa, photographed 31/07/05 by B Crowley, probable ID by Ivan Wright

Hoplitis spinulosa

(31 July 2005)*

Bombus hortorum, photographed 21 March 2009 by S Calvert-Fisher

Bombus hortorum

(21 March 2009)

Bombus pascuorum, photographed 31/07/05 by B Crowley

Bombus pascuorum (31 July 2005)*

Red-tailed bumble-bee, photographed 02/08/05 by B Crowley

Bombus lapidarius (01 August 2005)*

   

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) photographed 08 April 2009 by B Crowley

Honeybee (Apis mellifera) on dandelion

(08 April 2009)

Cimbex connatus - a sawfly. Specimen found 19 August 2009 by J Cartmell and photographed by Richard Lewington. Identification by Darren Mann

Cimbex connatus - a large sawfly

(19 August 2009)*

(See News item for more information

about this find)

     
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