Bees, Wasps, Ants & Sawflies

Ichneumon Wasp - Amblyteles armatorius

Sawfly - Blennocampa phyllocolpa

Cuckoo Bee - Bombus bohemicus

Tree Bumblebee - Bombus hypnorum

Photographs taken of this bee were sent to the Bumblebee Conservation Trust for confirmation of identification.  It has only recently arrived in theCounty, in August 2011.

Red Tailed Bumble Bee - Bombus lapidarius

White-tailed Bumble Bee - Bombus lucorum

Carder Bee - Bombus pascuorum

Diplolepsis nervosa

Wasp - Diplolepsis rosaceae

Ichneumon suspiciosus

Red Ants - Myrmica ruginodis

Several nests have been found and identification confirmed.  Eco Club children were told to release any very close to where they had been collected as the ants are unable to find their way home from a distance.

Common Spangle Gall - Neuroterus quercusbaccarum

Sawfly - Pontania pedunculi

Figwort Sawfly - Tenthredo scrophulariae

Caterpillar found eating its way through Water Figwort leaves!

Horntail - Urocerus gigas

Common Wasp - Vespula vulgaris

Alder Wood Wasp - Xiphydrya camellus

The Alder Woodwasp, Xiphydrya camellus,  is not a very common species.  It’s a wood borer in alder, usually trees that are rather stressed, or in dead alder wood.  This one landed on a volunteer’s leg at lunch time!