C.Rayz's photos with the keyword: bee

Record shot really, we lost sight after this but was lovely to know they are there.

My attempt at in flight shot, this bee does a lot of hovering and patrolling looking for a female, he spent lots of time guarding my lavendar.

I noticed in moving my stuff from 'over there' that I was lacking a lot of the Bumble species so trying to add to that set a bit. This was a large Bumble for this time of year and I wish now I had taken more care to photograph its long face.

This little bee was acting really odd. It was walking around on blades of grass quite docile and then latched itself onto this blade you see by locking on with its jaws. We thought it had been parasitized because it was not letting go for anything and then folded its legs up. I took some photos with the blade bent over a leaf cause the wind was swinging it all over. I wasn't going to post these, just was going to get an ID. While looking around for the ID, I came across someones photo and one of the comments on it was 'lucky you, wish I could find one with locked jaw', so this got me thinking...why would you want to do that, what is this behavior. So beginning my top notch detective work with a google search of 'Nomada locked jaw', I was rewarded with results that told me this bee is trying to sleep. I found this very interesting, and had never heard of such, maybe lots of insects do similar but we had never seen it. I was unable to get an exact ID also, Bwars didn't have an exact match, so if anyone has an idea on that too, I'd appreciate it.

Not sure which bee this is if anyone knows :)

I know I thought it was a wasp too...haha

Posted this guy to NaturePlus from the NHM to see what he is. Really amazing looking :) Update: Tipula has gotten back to me on the forum over there and ID'd this as one of the many species of Ruby-tailed Wasp. They are known as Cuckoo Wasps as they lay thier eggs in other solitary bee or wasp nests. Frankly I can't believe in the years and bugs I've chased I've not seen one before.

Posted this guy to NaturePlus from the NHM to see what he is. Really amazing looking :) Update: Tipula has gotten back to me on the forum over there and ID'd this as one of the many species of Ruby-tailed Wasp. They are known as Cuckoo Wasps as they lay thier eggs in other solitary bee or wasp nests. Frankly I can't believe in the years and bugs I've chased I've not seen one before.

On Wild Parsley

with cute knees...haha

For my friend :)

Such a face, I'd love to ID it, but havn't found it yet. Thanks Andy for that ID!