Natural History Photographs


Wasps & Bees
Abia fasciata
Nederlands:kamperfoeliebladwesp
English:honeysuckle sawfly
Tenthredo spec.
Feeding at Cantharis spec.
Andrena flavipes
Authority:Panzer, 1799
Nederlands:Grasbij
English:Yellow-legged mining bee
Deutsch:Gewöhnliche Bindensandbiene
Female feeding at Cichorium intybus
Bombus cf. humilis
Bombus humilis and pascuorum are difficult to identify with certainty...
Hylaeus cf. signatus
Authority:(Panzer, 1798)
Nederlands:Resedamaskerbij
English:Large yellow-face bee
Deutsch:Reseden-Maskenbiene
Identification based on visiting Reseda spec.
Osmia cf. leaiana
Authority:(Kirby, 1802)
Nederlands:Kauwende metselbij
English:Orange-vented mason bee
Deutsch:Zweihöckrige Mauerbiene
Isodontia mexicana
Authority:Saussure, 1867
Nederlands:Mexicaanse zwartsteel
Deutsch:Stahlblauer Grillenjäger
Originally this digger wasp was endemic to North America,
but since its introduction in southern France around 1960,
the species is expanding its range northward.
Polistes dominulus
Nederlands:Franse veldwesp
Male, with characteristic yellow face.
Female heavily infected with the Strepsipteran parasite, Xenos vesparum.