Hi As this forum is a bit quiet at present, I have put a photo of a wasp in the Photo section(for ID l-hebdon). Is it Dolichvespula 'something or other'? it...
Hi Leslie, Yes very quiet but not suprising at this time of year. Looks like Dolchovespula media to me. On another point, noticed late activity at a wasp nest...
Thanks Alan Not much happening here, but did see a Q. B. terrestris out and about about two days ago. I wondered if it had been disturbed and was having to...
Hello all! My friend received two unusually big nests of Polistes dominulus. One with 466 cells, the other with 565 cells. How many cells had the biggest...
Hi! I don't know anything about wasps, but I like taking photos of all kinds of bugs. I have here four photos of one species I think is Vespula vulgaris, which...
In the right general area, but I think it is Dolichovespula norvegica - also a common wasp. The other possibility would be D. saxonica which I do not know,...
Hi all, I've observed a queen B. terrestris collecting pollen (& nectaring?) on Clematis cirrhosa "Freckles" in my garden (Corsham, Wilts, ST 876695) on...
Hi Leslie. You can easy separate male: it has 13 antennal segments and 7 gastarl segments. Workers and queens have 12 antennal and 6 gastral segments. Queen...
Dear All, There are currently lots of winter colonies of B. terrestris in the London area - I am doing a project which involves and observing them and...
Hi Marc You could do a lot worse than check out Tom Ing's website. He is working on foraging and fitness of different sspp of Bombus terrestris at the Chittka ...
Hi again! I wonder if I may be so bold as to asking for another wasp iD ... I really appreciate all help I get. I don't think this one is Dolichovespula...
Hi Libor. Thanks for the explanation. I did take of photo of a D. media Queen, last year, which I had mistaken for a hornet worker. I have found another of...
Hi Les. It is impossible to identify this wasp. Maybe some Ancistrocerus or Symmorphus. I must to have this wasp under microscope for exact determination. ...
Thanks for the reply Libor, I shall have to resist the temptation to photo smaller things, and stick to my first interest, big insects, like bumblebees!! Les...
Hi! Is it possible to tell species or genus of this wasp? I think it might be a wasp belonging to the family Eumenidae. There are 36 species in this family...
It looks to be a female in the Genus Ancistrocerus. Possibly A. gazella or A. quadratus. Your pictures are well staged. The best thing now is to check...
... Thank you very much Andrew. I don't collect the animals so I'll have to be content with this being a female Ancistrocerus sp. I notice that in our report...
May be asking the impossible here, but the egroup has answered some pretty challenging questions before! I've put a photo into the MCH folder in the Photos...
Martin, I think knowing where the salad has come from (produce of....) might help in narrowing down the ID. The only thing i can think of that is that large...
Not Camponotus, as it appears to have a petiole and postpetiole. That would most likely place it in the Myrmecinae. Not many are that big, but there's a chance...
Andy and Martin I'm no expert on Euro-ants but the picture looks like the specimen has 2 segments to the pedicel and I think that Camponotus sp. have only 1...
Unlikely to be Crematogaster either, as the postpetiole should be attached to the upper surface of the gaster - in this instance it appears to be attached in...
Hi Martin and all, This looks very interesting and perhaps from further afield than Europe. If the finder still has this ant and would like to pursue it then I...
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