Fluidr / Creative Nature & Wildlife's "Hoverflies, Bees and Wasps" set

Hornet Mimic Hoverfly...A Little Treasure

N 41 B 2.4K C 86 E Aug 26, 2015 F Sep 16, 2015

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The Hornet Mimic Hoverfly (Volucella zonaria). As its name suggests, this hoverfly is an excellent mimic of the Hornet. It's about 2cm long. The adults are migratory and the larvae live inside wasp's nests scavenging on food. Until the 1940's was a rare visitor to the UK, but now is becoming more widespread and moving further north as the climate changes.

Brown-Banded Carder Bee (bombus humilus)

N 46 B 1.7K C 111 E Sep 27, 2014 F Sep 24, 2015

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Bumble bee, bumble bee, busy bumbling all the day long, from flower to flower unceasingly buzzing and bumbling along. Not for itself does it toil and spend. It is for hive and human the sacrifice it makes. Nature's way of harvesting earth's riches that furnish our tables. Blessed are we!
RLW

Long Hoverfly (male)

N 30 B 1.1K C 104 E Oct 16, 2014 F May 14, 2015

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Brown-banded Carder Bee (bombus humilus)

N 34 B 1.1K C 96 E Sep 27, 2014 F Mar 22, 2015

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Buff-tailed Bumblebee on an Echinacea Flower

N 34 B 1.2K C 85 E Aug 6, 2013 F Jan 24, 2015

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Lord, lead us to the Land you have promised, a land flowing with milk and honey.