Hairy Footed Flower Bee male gathering nectar of a lungwort flower growing along a forest path. Limousin, France.
A small sawfly very characteristic with its red head and yet very difficult to identify. Photos of this species in the imago state are very rare. The larvae are green and like the leaves of alder and birch. This one resting on a periwinkle leaf near a pond. Limousin, France.
A small sawfly very characteristic with its red head and yet very difficult to identify. Photos of this species in the imago state are very rare. The larvae are green and like the leaves of alder and birch. This one resting on a periwinkle leaf near a pond. Limousin, France.
Andrena nitida is a mining and solitary bee, a little larger than a honeybee, it is early (appears in March / April) and is particularly fond of pollen of buttercups and dandelions. Here a female (the male is much more svelte) on a leaf of sorrel in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Hairy Footed Flower Bee male gathering nectar of Purple Dead-nettle flowers in my garden.
A little sawfly resting on sedge stem beside a small stream in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
A Leaf-cutter bee female gathering nectar of a cosmos flower in my garden. Limousin, France.
Ornate Tailed Digger Wasp, a small wasp of the family Crabonidae. Adults are floricolous but the larvae are carnivorous. This is why the female catch of small Hymenoptera, it paralyzes them and lock them into galleries with eggs; the larvae will eat well. Limousin, France.
European wool carder bee female scraping hair from leaf. then she will carry this hair bundled beneath her body to be used as a nest lining. Limousin, France.
A violet carpenter bee male gathering nectar of hemp-agrimony flowers in a wet meadow. limousin, France.
A Leaf-cutter bee female gathering nectar of a chocolate cosmos flower in my garden.
A violet carpenter bee male preparing to take flight from apple mint in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Scoliid wasp female gathering nectar of apple mint flowers in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
Scoliid wasp female gathering nectar of apple mint flowers in a wet meadow. Limousin, France.
A Cimbicid Sawfly resting on a leaf nettle in the garden. Limousin, France. I photographed the larvae of this species in 2011 just a few meters.
A Cimbicid Sawfly resting on a leaf nettle in the garden. Limousin, France. I photographed the larvae of this species in 2011 just a few meters.
A violet carpenter bee male resting on a bramble leaf near the forest. limousin, France.