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Japanese yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera)

Japanese yellow hornet (Vespa simillima xanthoptera) parasitised by a female twisted-wing parasite (Xenos moutoni), that is seldom seen as it lives its life inside its host. The end of the parasite is protruding from the hornet's abdominal segments. Males live only five hours or so and do not eat. Japan

Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queen about to land at her nest burrow in a

Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris) queen about to land at her nest burrow in a garden lawn with loaded pollen sacs to provision grubs that will become future workers for her colony, Wiltshire, UK, April

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Wasp walking around a Spanish love-in-a-mist (Nigella hispanica) flower to sip nectar

Wasp walking around a Spanish love-in-a-mist (Nigella hispanica) flower to sip nectar from ring of blue nectaries, thorax and abdomen pick up pollen from downward facing anthers that swipe over the wasp's body

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