HYMENOPTERA - Neil's Wildlife Journal

bees, wasps, sawflies and ants

Large-headed Resin Bee [Heriades truncorum]

Female – Location : London Wetland Centre, Barnes, Greater London, England – Date of image : 06 Sep 2021

Patchwork Leafcutter Bee [Megachile centuncularis]

Female collecting pollen from Common Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) – Location : London Wetland Centre, Barnes, Greater London, England – Date of image : 06 Sep 2021

Patchwork Leafcutter Bee [Megachile centuncularis]

Female collecting pollen from Common Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica) – Location : London Wetland Centre, Barnes, Greater London, England – Date of image : 06 Sep 2021

Red Bartsia Bee [Melitta tricincta]

Adult female(?) taking off from a Red Bartsia (Odontites vernus) flower - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 08 Aug 2025

sand wasp [Nysson trimaculatus ?]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 05 Aug 2021

White Butterfly Parasitoid Wasp [Cotesia glomerata]

Adult on Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 09 Jul 2021

White Butterfly Parasitoid Wasp [Cotesia glomerata]

Adult on Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 09 Jul 2021

Sycamore Aphid Parasitoid Wasp [Dyscritulus planiceps]

Pupa and aphid mummy. The wasp D. planiceps lays its egg inside a Drepanosiphum sp. aphid, the hatched larva eats the aphid from the inside and when fully developed exits leaving the dry exoskeleton and spins the disc-shaped coccoon beneath to pupate - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 17 Aug 2025

Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp [Cerceris rybyensis]

Adult on St John's Wort (Hypericum sp.) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 09 Jul 2021

Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp [Cerceris rybyensis]

Adult on Wild Parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) - Location : Juniper Top, NT Box Hill, Surrey, England – Date of image : 26 Jul 2024

Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp [Cerceris rybyensis]

Adult on Hemp-agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 21 Jul 2025

European Beewolf [Philanthus triangulum]

Male on Hemp-agrimony (Eupatorium cannabinum) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 14 Jul 2025

Hairy-backed Boxheaded Wasp [Crossocerus megacephalus]

Adult - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 15 Jul 2021

Sharp-shouldered Fly Fox [Ectemnius dives]

Adult on Hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 18 Jul 2025

Woodland Ectemnius [Ectemnius lituratus]

Female on Common Rue (Ruta graveolens) - Location : NT Nymans, near Haywards Heath, West Sussex, England – Date of image : 25 Aug 2021

Artichoke Gall Wasp (Andricus foecundatrix)

Gall caused by the gall wasp A. foecundatrix laying an egg in an axillary bud of an English Oak (Quercus robur) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 06 Aug 2025

Knopper Gall Wasp [Andricus quercuscalicis]

Gall caused by the gall wasp A. quercuscalicis laying eggs in the acorn of an English Oak (Quercus robur) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 22 Jul 2025

Oak Apple Gall Wasp [Biorhiza pallida]

Gall caused by the gall wasp B. pallida laying eggs in the leaf bud of an English Oak (Quercus robur) - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 02 May 2025

Oriental Chestnut Gall Wasp [Dryocosmus kuriphilus]

Upper surface of a Sweet Chestnut (Castanea sativa) leaf with galls caused by D. kuriphilus forming at the leaf midrib causing distortion of the leaf - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 30 Jul 2025

Silk-button Spangle Gall Wasp [Neuroterus numismalis]

Each gall on the underside of this Pedunculate Oak (Quercus robur) leaf contains a single larva of the parent wasp N. numismalis - Location : Banstead Downs, Surrey, England – Date of image : 27 Jun 2025