What's this please?

[jenkinsbrynmair]

No, JBM.

You've been scratching your head again, JBM.

Your dandruff is covering the screen.

Dusty

Not my head Dusty

 

[ichbinpaul]

It's a smaller version of this:-

 

[Suzi Q]

It looked similar to this, a solitary bee, collects pollen on body hairs.View attachment 8517

 

[Chris Luck]

Start by looking here...

Females collect "down" from such plants as lamb's ears (Stachys byzantina). They scrape the hairs from the leaves and carry them back to their nests bundled beneath their bodies. There it is used as a lining for their nest cavities.[1][10] Both males and females hover near flowers similar to flies in the Syrphidae family.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthidium_manicatum

Chris, (no shiny trouser bottoms here).

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

It's a smaller version of this:-

That's what a lot have said

 

[Browntea]

Finally....

 

[Browntea]

I give in!!

 

[Suzi Q]

Come on Browntea, you can do it!
The interesting bee I saw the other day is a Megachile something or other, a leaf-cutting bee, that may or may not collect pollen on the underside of its abdomen.

 

[masterBK]

Megachile does indeed carry pollen on the underside of the abdomen. They have a tuft of hairs to do this called a "scopa".

 

[Browntea]

Maybe now.....

 

[Browntea]

This time...

 

[Browntea]

Suzi I DID IT!! Stupid iPhones! Or iPhone owners!!

 

[sjt]

That's a sawfly....female Urocerus gigas

 

[Browntea]

Thanks sjt

 

[Suzi Q]

Well done, worth waiting for! I think it may be some kind of parasitic wasp. There are forum members who will know exactly what it is.

 

[Browntea]

I think the red wine maybe helped me post the pic

 

[Suzi Q]

That's a sawfly....female Urocerus gigas

Is that the little blighter that lays eggs on my gooseberry bushes?

 

[beekeeping4you]

That's a sawfly....female Urocerus gigas

The Giant Woodwasp, Banded Horntail, or Greater Horntail (Urocerus gigas) is a species of Sawfly, native to the Holarctic and North Africa. Adults are usually between 10 to 40mm (0.5 to 1.5 inches) in length.[1]
Urocerus gigas

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Urocerus gigas Female ovipositing (probably in Germany)
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[Browntea]

Is that the little blighter that lays eggs on my gooseberry bushes?

From what I've just googled I don't think so, they lay their larve in dead wood I believe

 

[Browntea]

http://www.wildaboutbritain.co.uk/f...ertebrates/57418-horntail-urocerus-gigas.html