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Chrysis inaequidens, the jewelled cuckoo wasp

4th June, 201326th February, 2014 The Virtual Ranger 1 Comment bees, hymeroptera, insects, invertebrates, parasites, wasps

Look at this gorgeous North American solitary wasp (click the image for a bigger version if you like). Now wonder about its name – why is it named after a

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Beewolf buzzing Ryde once more

15th July, 2009 The Virtual Ranger 5 Comments bee wolf, bees, wasps

In 2007 The Ranger wrote about his local colony of Philanthus triangulum, the European beewolf. Sadly, in 2008 the fearsome little things were nowhere to be found – perhaps they

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The bear and the bees – more Slovenian bee-houses

12th January, 200720th October, 2015 The Virtual Ranger 5 Comments apiculture, bee-houses, bee-keeping, bees, hives, painting, slovenia

If you read The Ranger’s recent post about Slovenian bee-houses you must have shared his frustration at not to be able to see more detail of the exquisite little pictures

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