Bees & wasps
The honeybee and the bumblebees everyone knows, and a good many solitary species that most people never notice: leafcutters, sweat bees, digger wasps and the little yellow-faced bees. A flower bed in August is about the busiest place in any garden.
Nearly all wasps are solitary and want nothing from your picnic. The sand wasps and digger wasps hunt a single kind of prey, paralyse it with a sting and bury it alive in a burrow as food for one larva, a habit that Darwin, writing about their ichneumon cousins, found hard to square with a benevolent creator.
- Bee, family Apidae Apidae
- Bumblebee Bombus impatiens
- Crabronid wasp Crabronidae
- Cuckoo wasp Chrysididae
- Eastern Carpenter Bee Xylocopa virginica
- Eastern Cicada Killer Sphecius speciosus
- European Hornet Vespa crabro
- European Paper Wasp Polistes dominula
- Gold-marked Thread-waisted Wasp Eremnophila aureonotata
- Great Black Wasp Sphex pensylvanicus
- Great Golden Digger Wasp Sphex ichneumoneus
- Honeybee Apis mellifera
- Ichneumon wasp Ichneumonidae
- Leafcutter bee Megachile sp.
- Long-horned bee Melissodes sp.
- Paper wasp Polistes sp.
- Red-banded Sand Wasp Ammophila sabulosa
- Sand wasp Bembix sp.
- Sawfly Tenthredo sp.
- Sweat bee Halictidae
- Wool Carder Bee Anthidium manicatum
- Yellow-faced bee Hylaeus sp.
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