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#wasps

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Relle

Picture of my Grandma (left) and another female pilot testing bombers during WWII.
She was a part of the WASPS.
Had run away from the orphanage at age 14, decided to get her pilots license by 16 and joined the airforce.
#WASPs

Two women wearing their flying attire walking in front of a bomber plane on a tarmac. The picture is in black and white. My grandma is on the left. She was around 20 years old at the time.
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Kimberley

I found this beautiful little lady exploring the nooks and crannies around my water butts. I think she’s a German yellowjacket wasp (Vespula Germanica), and maybe a queen as she’s quite large but I’m not sure. She was very docile, maybe quite newly emerged. But I use my water butts a lot in summer so I’ve relocated her to a less troublesome location near some trees that are surrounded by brambles so nobody can get near enough to disturb any potential nests.

Close up of a yellowjacket wasp. She’s got a black splodge on her upper body then her abdomen is bright yellow with black columns running down the centre and block dots either side of the column on each segment
Close up of a yellowjacket wasp. She’s got a black splodge on her upper body then her abdomen is bright yellow with black columns running down the centre and block dots either side of the column on each segment
#ukNature#wasps
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Colin Purrington

Here's the observation panel tucked into its bay. The protruding screw is so that I can easily pull it out to check on inhabitants. I check daily during the summer and sometimes can snag pics of interesting phases of wasp and bee nest-provisioning. E.g., the egg of a grass-carrying wasp deposited on a paralyzed tree cricket. You never get to see any of this action with a normal nesting tube. #bees #wasps

Insect hotel with a vertical set of square holes in a piece of wood.
Yellow egg that looks like a balloon, draped on a pale green insect inside a tunnel that has many blades of dead grass compressed into a plug.
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