S. M. Garver - Wildlife Photos - Insects

This page has various bees and wasps.
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Bumble bee and an anole on the backside of the flower
[A huge black and yellow bee, which is slightly smaller than the prior all-black one, covers the center of the bright yellow flower. This bee has transparent wings except for the veins on the wings which are dark. The green anole's head and neck stick out from behind the leaf of the flower. ]

Bumble bee with its pollen-packed legs
[A huge mostly yellow bee with clear wings and browns legs perched on the remains of a flower with a few white petals remaining. Each back leg has a large orange-yellow section.]

Another bee with its pollen-packed legs
[A yellow and black bee with clear wings and browns legs perched on what appears to be a flowerless all green stick plant. Each back leg has a large bright yellow glob stuck to it.]

Carpenter bee
[A huge bee with a yellow fuzzy body which has a black dot on it. Its wings appear black. Its legs on long and fuzzy. Its head is black with two large eyes and thick short antennae. ]

Bee with clear wings
[The front section of the bee is golden. The back section is golden with black stripes around its body. The transparent wings are barely visible. Its black tongue is curved out and into the yellow center of the flower on which it is perched.]

Another bee with clear wings
[The side view of the bee perched in the yellow center of a white-petaled flower. The three legs visible are thick and brown. The clear wings are raised above the body. The bee has a dark eye and thin black antenna. Only the very back end of this bee has black stripes across its golden body.]

Sweat bee
[This bee, perched atop the center of a flower which has all but one of its white petals missing, has a green body with white stripes on its back section. Its wings appear to be brown.]

Another sweat bee eating and then taking off.
[Two photos spliced together. On the left is a side view of the bee with its head in the yellow center of a white-petaled flower. On the right is the bee with its front legs in the air, the wings blurred and the back end still in the yellow center of the flower. The head is clearly visible and appears to be a triangular shape.]

This sweat bee is a sparkly green.
[This bee is perched atop the yellow center of a flower with several dozen thin white petals. Its wings appear to be black and the green of its body is partially obscured by the petals of a flower in the foreground.]

Scoliid wasp
[An insect with a yellow and black body and black wings is at the tips of the petals of a cup-shaped yellow flower. It also has very long antennae.]

The very long antennae of this Scoliid wasp indicate it's probably a male.

Black and Yellow Mud Dauber wasp
The back part of its body has an open section. The pavement below it is visible through this opening.
[An insect is on the pavement. It has black and yellow legs. Its wings are dark and held above the open spot on its body.]

Limonethe maurator wasp
[This wasp appears to have blue wings covering its reddish-brown body. Its legs are brown and black. Its black antenna have a white section in the middle. It's on a leaf with a lot of small drops of dew.]

Paper wasp
[The wasp with yellow and black legs stands on a leaf. It has dark antenna and what appears to be a purple and black two segmented body. This is a side view of the insect.]

Another view of the paper wasp
[This is a top down view and there are two body segments in addition to the head. The dark-colored wings extend in a vee shape from the middle section of the body.]

Yellow and brown paper wasp on a magnolia tree leaf
[A top down view of this wasp with yellow legs and antenna. It has brown wings and a two sectioned body. The rear-most section has yellow and black thin stripes and two wide brown stripes. The top section is mostly brown with thin yellow sections at irregular intervals like a stained-glass picture.]

Wasps have longer legs than I realized.
[The yellow and brown wasp has just departed a branch and its hind legs are outstretched. They are at least twice the length of the body of the wasp. The wings stretched out to the sides are slightly blurry from motion. The yellow brown antennae stick out from the head at ten and two o'clock positions. ]

Home sweet home for paper wasps
[A nest which was started behind a sign on a blue wall hangs down several inches. There are more than a dozen yellow-and-brown wasps with their brown wings crawling on it. There appear to be at least a dozen cells which have white coverings on the end indicating more young wasps have yet to arrive.]

Common Thread Waisted wasp
It flew and landed right in front of me as if it wanted me to take a photo so I did.
[This is a top down view from the front of the wasp on the concrete. It has a dark head and antenna and very long dark legs. Its body has a very skinny black section which connects to a much larger diameter section. The middle of the body is red while the ends are black. The wings only extend as far back as the skinny section so there's quite a bit of body beyond the wings.]

Another view of the Common Thread Waisted wasp
After I decided I had enough photos of it, it flew away as if it had been reading my mind!
[This is a top down view from the back. The red section isn't as noticeable although it is still visible. It looks more like a big black bug in this image.]

This might be another type of Thread Waisted wasp.
[A front top view of a wasp with black legs and antenna and what appears to be a black and yellow head. It has brown wings behind which a narrow section and then a bulb (back section of body) are visible.]

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