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Photo courtesy of Joaquin Jimenez and Marta Buzzi.
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A common wasp caught inside the house on 20 February 2010 and put in the freezer. Here photographed to demonstrate the morphological differences with Vespula germanica. Later discarded.
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A common wasp caught inside the house on 20 February 2010 and put in the freezer. Here photographed to demonstrate the morphological differences with Vespula germanica. Later discarded.
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A common wasp caught inside the house on 20 February 2010 and put in the freezer. Here photographed to demonstrate the morphological differences with Vespula germanica. Later discarded.
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A common wasp caught inside the house on 20 February 2010 and put in the freezer. Here photographed to demonstrate the morphological differences with Vespula germanica. Later discarded.
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A common wasp caught inside the house on 20 February 2010 and put in the freezer. Here photographed to demonstrate the morphological differences with Vespula germanica. Later discarded.
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These wasps were common in the forest, feeding on the beech honeydew.
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These wasps were common in the forest, feeding on the beech honeydew.
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Wasp nest in a neighbour's shed.
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On an oak tree covered in aphids.
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Common on the trunks of the beech black with sooty mould and honeydew from the beech scale insects.
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Common on the trunks of the beech black with sooty mould and honeydew from the beech scale insects.
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Common on the trunks of the beech black with sooty mould and honeydew from the beech scale insects.
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Common on the trunks of the beech black with sooty mould and honeydew from the beech scale insects.
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Wasp attacking a bluebottle blowfly over a period of 6 minutes. It was quite a rough and tumble wrestling match, I didn't see the initial attack so don't know how long it had been going on for, but the blowfly only managed to fly short distances by the time I started observing it - not often does one feel sorry for blowflies ;-)
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Wasp attacking a bluebottle blowfly over a period of 6 minutes. It was quite a rough and tumble wrestling match, I didn't see the initial attack so don't know how long it had been going on for, but the blowfly only managed to fly short distances by the time I started observing it - not often does one feel sorry for blowflies ;-)
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Wasp attacking a bluebottle blowfly over a period of 6 minutes. It was quite a rough and tumble wrestling match, I didn't see the initial attack so don't know how long it had been going on for, but the blowfly only managed to fly short distances by the time I started observing it - not often does one feel sorry for blowflies ;-)
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Wasp attacking a bluebottle blowfly over a period of 6 minutes. It was quite a rough and tumble wrestling match, I didn't see the initial attack so don't know how long it had been going on for, but the blowfly only managed to fly short distances by the time I started observing it - not often does one feel sorry for blowflies ;-)
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Wasp attacking a bluebottle blowfly over a period of 6 minutes. It was quite a rough and tumble wrestling match, I didn't see the initial attack so don't know how long it had been going on for, but the blowfly only managed to fly short distances by the time I started observing it - not often does one feel sorry for blowflies ;-)
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Wasp attacking a bluebottle blowfly over a period of 6 minutes. It was quite a rough and tumble wrestling match, I didn't see the initial attack so don't know how long it had been going on for, but the blowfly only managed to fly short distances by the time I started observing it - not often does one feel sorry for blowflies ;-)
