#hymenoptera — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #hymenoptera, aggregated by home.social.
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Here is its cousin, Halictus sexcinctus, seen this morning foraging on mint flowers.
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... which I saw while chasing a velvet ant male around a fig tree bark, as it was walking slowly.
The velvet ant, a male, is perhaps Ronisia brutia, but I am not sure:
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Found my favorite bee, the tiny and aptly named Nomioides minutissimus. Here foraging on mint flowers.
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How to handle yellowjacket nests in garden beds https://www.allforgardening.com/1922178/how-to-handle-yellowjacket-nests-in-garden-beds/ #agricultural #AnimalBehaviour #AnimalProduct #AnimalProtection #apocrita #BeeColony #BeeHouse #beekeeping #bees #black #breeding #BreedingGround #BreedingSeason #Builds #BunchOf #caring #Colony #Cultivate #Cultivation #cutout #deserted #ecofriendly #EnvironmentProtection #exemptable #ExteriorView #garden #gardening #group #Hobby #honeycomb #hymenoptera #Many #ManyAnimals #nest #NestBuilding #NestingAid #NestingSite
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`A new species, Chlorocytus papahemii sp. nov. (Pteromalidae), a hyperparasitoid of E. curculionum, is described from China. Illustrations and a detailed morphological description of the new species, as well as a redescription of the types of related Chlorocytus species, are provided. ` http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1279.188643
#hymenoptera #wasp #insecta #arthropoda #arthropod #invertebrate #zoology #science #biology #taxonomy #phylogeny
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Could anyone help me identify this wasp please?! We’re in the French Alps at a lake at about 1100m (near Bourg-d’Oisans). About 20–30 mm long, with a very elongated thorax, thread-like waist, smoky wings, mostly black body with narrow yellow bands, and strongly hooked antennae (all individuals appeared to have them). They were remarkably agile, running over wet lakeside rocks. About 5 of them engaging in searching/foraging behaviour.
#Entomology
#Hymenoptera
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What a photo. And love it when animals incidentally carry uniquely identifying markers, like this masked bee dragging about a dead ant, mandibles clamping its leg:
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Went for a walk at lunchtime & came across an assemblage of different wasps with a complex of burrows in a sandy path. I think the image on the left is a pair of Cerceris digger wasps with prey, about to enter the burrow to the right. The image on the right is a Hedychrum cuckoo wasp, a parasite of digger wasps. Photos not great so will have to return and catch some specimens for closer examination to identify further 🤓
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The new colony has moved.
They left an egg behind so I decided to give it to my much larger (nearly 5 year old) Camponotus pennsylvanicus colony. I made a paper tool to gently move it. When they noticed the paper they seemed aggressive at first— but, then one ant gently picked up the egg to take it “back” to the nest.
One of this colony is now from a different queen and I will never know, her sisters will never know— even *she* will never know who she is!
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Mating bumblebees, seen just now in Cambridge, UK. Seems late for the season, wondering if these are new reproductives, in which case they are out rather early.
Bombus terrestris (presumably), garden bumblebee.
http://www.inaturalist.org/observations/369266431#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #nativebees #bumblebees #entomology
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Bees can use tools!
"In the latest research, bees were shown to be able to roll a polystyrene ball to a specific location and climb on to it in order to access an artificial flower on a low ceiling. The findings challenge the longstanding assumption that insects operate purely on instinct and mindless trial-and-error learning."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/04/bees-use-tools-to-solve-problems-study-finds
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Is this a Symmorphus bifasciatus? Seems to be the best match looking at BWARS based on markings and location (South Yorkshire) but I’m not knowledgeable on wasps.