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Natural History of Radley
Wasps, bees and ants (hymenoptera)
Sawflies (Symphyta)
Bees Wasps and Ants (Apocrita)
ACULEATA (bees, wasps and ants)
Social Wasps (Vespidae) Common Wasp (Vespa vulgaris) Median wasp (Dolichovespula media)* Hornet (Vespa crabro)*
Social Wasps (Vespidae)
Bees (Apidae) Honeybee (Apis mellifera) Hoplitis spinulosa (locally rare)* Tawny Mining Bee (Andrena fulva) Wool Carder Bee (Anthidium manicatum) Bumble-bees Buff-tailed Bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) Red-tailed bumble-bee (Bombus lapidarius)* Bombus hortorum Bombus pascuorum* Digger Wasps (Sphecidae) Argogortes mystaceus (locally rare)* Ants (Formicidae) Black Lawn Ant (Lasius niger) Common Red Ant (Myrmica rubra)
Bees (Apidae)
(Andrena fulva)
Bumble-bees
Digger Wasps (Sphecidae)
Ants (Formicidae)
PARASITICA (parasitoid wasps)
Gall wasps (Cynipidae) Robin's Pincushion gall wasp (Diplolepsis rosae) Ground Ivy gall wasp (Liposthenus glechomae)* Gasteruptiidae Gasteruption jaculator
Gall wasps (Cynipidae)
(Liposthenus glechomae)*
Gasteruptiidae
Ichneumonidae Ichneumon fly (fa.) Ichneumon fly (fa.) Amblyteles armatorius Ophion luteus (agg.)
Ichneumonidae
Ichneuman fly on hawthorn leaf (15 May 2005)*
Ichneumon fly (28 May 2006)
Argogortes mystaceus
(22 June 2006)*
Hoplitis spinulosa
(31 July 2005)*
Bombus hortorum
(21 March 2009)
Bombus pascuorum (31 July 2005)*
Bombus lapidarius (01 August 2005)*
Honeybee (Apis mellifera) on dandelion
(08 April 2009)
Cimbex connatus - a large sawfly
(19 August 2009)*
(See News item for more information
about this find)
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