HYMENOPTERA - Neil's Wildlife Journal

bees, wasps, sawflies and ants

Ashy Mining Bee [Andrena cineraria]

Female on Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 04 Aug 2021

Grey-banded Mining Bee [Andrena denticulata]

Female gathering pollen from Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 05 Aug 2021

Grey-banded Mining Bee [Andrena denticulata]

Female gathering pollen from Ragwort (Jacobaea vulgaris) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 05 Aug 2021

Yellow-legged Mining Bee [Andrena flavipes]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 28 Jun 2025

Yellow-legged Mining Bee [Andrena flavipes]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 28 Jun 2025

Early Mining Bee [Andrena haemorrhoa]

Adult on Common Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 26 May 2025

Early Mining Bee [Andrena haemorrhoa]

Adult on Common Dogwood (Cornus sanguinea) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 26 May 2025

Small Scabious Mining Bee [Andrena marginata]

Female collecting pollen from Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 03 Sep 2021

Small Scabious Mining Bee [Andrena marginata]

Female collecting pollen from Small Scabious (Scabiosa columbaria) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 03 Sep 2021

Common Mini-miner [Andrena minutula]

Male on Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 11 Jul 2025

Common Mini-miner [Andrena minutula]

Female on Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 11 Jul 2025

Chocolate Mining Bee [Andrena scotica]

Female - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 08 May 2025

Broad-margined Mining Bee [Andrena synadelpha]

Female on a Traveller’s Joy (Clematis vitalba) leaf - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 16 May 2025

Trimmer's Mining Bee [Andrena trimmerana]

Female collecting pollen from a rose - Location : Stoke Prior, Herefordshire, England – Date of image : 06 Sep 2025

Western Honey Bee [Apis mellifera adansoni]

Adult of sub-species adansoni, ‘West African Honey Bee’ hovering over Tree Marigold (Tithonia diversifolia) - Location : Nzérékoré, Guinea – Date of image : 08 Sep 2009

Western Honey Bee [Apis mellifera]

Female collecting pollen from Buddleja sp. - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 09 Jul 2015

Western Honey Bee [Apis mellifera]

Female collecting pollen from a Helenium cultivar - Location : Oaks Park, Carshalton, Greater London, England – Date of image : 23 Jul 2023

Western Honey Bee [Apis mellifera]

Female on knapweed - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 25 Aug 2024

Western Honey Bee [Apis mellifera mellifera]

Female of sub-species mellifera, ‘British Black Honey Bee’ collecting pollen from Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 08 Jul 2021

Western Honey Bee [Apis mellifera scutellata]

Female of sub-species scutellata, ‘African Honey Bee) collecting pollen from Black-jack (Bidens pilosa) - Location : near Kolwezi, Democratic Republic of Congo – Date of image : 05 Feb 2009