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10-04-2010, 07:03 PM
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Can anyone id this beauty? It was about 25-35mm long, taken today.   |
10-04-2010, 07:06 PM
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Its an Ichneumonid from the Ophioninae family. Looks like Ophion although several very similar ones. |
10-04-2010, 08:00 PM
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Nice images.
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10-04-2010, 09:57 PM
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Thanks.
I also got some shots of this Bee. Any chance of getting an id from these?  
Are they some type of parasite on the bees body? |
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Originally Posted by glsammy 
Are they some type of parasite on the bees body?
| Bee mites, very common. There's been discussion on these in past posts.
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11-04-2010, 12:00 AM
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The bee looks very much like the Vestal Cuckoo-bee, Bombus vestalis (the first on WAB this year) - on account of the rear femur lacking the usual baskets, a different jiz to B. terrestris/lucorum and the faint yellow band seperating the black hairs and white tail on the abdomen.
The bee itself is a parasite! It enters the nest of Bombus terrestris and attempts to kill the queen and larvae before breeding herself.
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Thanks you Jason. Very interesting.  | | |
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