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  1. Wildwood

    ID please - Saskatchewan, Canada

    It's a solitary digger wasp in the genus Crabro and a male due to the shield-like extensions on the front legs. The colouring/shape of the shields is usually distinctive to species so I would imagine it'll be Crabro latipes: http://bugguide.net/node/view/396811
  2. Wildwood

    Bumblebee ID help please!

    1st: B. pascuorum 2nd: Can't see head - if it was long, B. hortorum; if it was short, possibly B. jonellus (a heath/moor species). 3rd: B. terrestris. (2 & 3 are definitely different bees).
  3. Wildwood

    Bee ID

    Yes, Bombus hypnorum.
  4. Wildwood

    ID needed for a couple of Insects please

    1st: A male mason wasp (Eumeninae) and probably an Ancistrocerus sp. 2nd: Probably a male Nomada goodeniana, which is a cuckoo bee.
  5. Wildwood

    Tree Bumble bees nesting

    Try here with links to distribution maps at bottom: http://www.bwars.com/index.php?q=content/bombus-hypnorum-mapping-project
  6. Wildwood

    Suffolk Bee ID please

    A female Anthophora plumipes, or the 'hairy-footed flower bee'.
  7. Wildwood

    Two Bumble Bee ID's

    The first one may very well be Bombus ruderarius as it has red hairs on the tibia and is female. The second could be one of three: Bombus pascuorum, B. muscorum or B. humilis. I wouldn't like to say which one though. Might be best to email the pics for another opinion to the Bumblebee...
  8. Wildwood

    Nomad Bees - Lancashire

    1 & 2 could be Nomada flava, but it could also be N. panzeri or a couple of others.. 3 & 4 is probably N. marshamella.
  9. Wildwood

    Small dark bee in UK - can anyone help ID?

    Looks like a species of Lasioglossum.
  10. Wildwood

    Bee ID

    It's a mining bee - Andrena carantonica (used to be called Andrena scotica).
  11. Wildwood

    Bumble Bee ID March

    From what I can see - ginger thorax, black abdomen and white tail - Bombus hypnorum.
  12. Wildwood

    Comment by 'Wildwood' in media 'WASP SPECIES?'

    Looks like a species of Paper wasp - Polistes sp.
  13. Wildwood

    Comment by 'Wildwood' in media ''Smile, you're on Candid camera''

    Nice pic. This one is a male (long antenna) so is harmless. Only females possess stings.
  14. Wildwood

    Hornet/Wasp attacking beetle Sagres Portugal

    Just to clarify: only the newly produced queens overwinter to found new nests the following spring. The original founding queen also dies in the autumn along with the workers and males she produced. Queens live approx one year, workers and males a few weeks. Old nests are not normally re-used...
  15. Wildwood

    Digger wasp

    It's an Ectemnius sp.
  16. Wildwood

    Hornet/Wasp attacking beetle Sagres Portugal

    Not a wasp but a roberfly (Asilidae). Possibly something like Asilus barbarus. Not my area though.
  17. Wildwood

    How long do wasp nests last?

    The lifespan of the nest depends on the species and their strategies to get to the end result - that being the production of new queens/males. Long-cycle species, such as V. vulgaris, take longer to produce new queens so a nest may start in April and continue until October. A short-cycle...
  18. Wildwood

    Sawfly? Wasp?

    Cerceris rybyensis (Hym. Crabronidae). One of the digger wasps.
  19. Wildwood

    Large Ant NE Scotland

    Very hard to be sure but possibly one of the dark-coloured Formica such as F. lemani or F. fusca.
  20. Wildwood

    Potter Wasp ID

    Yes a Symmorphus sp. Usually regarded as a 'mason wasp' rather than a 'potter wasp' which really only applies to one species in the UK - Eumenes coartatus.
  21. Wildwood

    Social or solitary wasp nest?

    It's an early-stage nest of a social wasp (Vespula etc), often called a 'queen nest' as at this stage workers have yet to hatch-out/develop so nest building is solely by the queen. Many of these early nests are abandoned due to one thing or another (queen death etc) and don't develop further...
  22. Wildwood

    What's going on?

    These are clearly a mating pair of B. lapidarius. I see no white on the male - unless you mean the slightly over-exposed band at the front of the thorax, which is still pale yellow on my monitor.
  23. Wildwood

    European wasp

  24. Wildwood

    European wasp

    Some species (for e.g. Vespa crabro) may relocate a nest early in the season if the nesting cavity is too small for further nest expansion, but they do not mass swarm with a new queen to create new perennial colonies like honeybees. Apart from exceptional circumstances as with introduced Vespula...
  25. Wildwood

    Comment by 'Wildwood' in media 'ID help please'

    A bee, and a male Andrena sp.
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