Phil Savoie / Ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis), flying carrying paralysed female White zoned furrow bee (Lasioglossum leucozonium) to nest, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, August.

Phil Savoie / Ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis), flying carrying paralysed female White zoned furrow bee (Lasioglossum leucozonium) to nest, Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, August.

Phil Savoie / Ornate tailed digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis), predating female White zoned furrow bee (Lasioglossum leucozonium) Monmouthshire, Wales, UK, August.

Andy Sands / Digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) flying back to burrow carrying paralysed mining bee, Oxfordshire, England, UK, July

Andy Sands / Mottled bee-fly (Thyridanthrax fenestratus) bee fly who's larvae parasitize the nests of the digger wasp Ammophila pubescens, Surrey, England, UK, August.

Andy Sands / Mottled bee-fly (Thyridanthrax fenestratus) bee fly who's larvae parasitize the nests of the digger wasp Ammophila pubescens, Surrey, England, UK, August. UK BAP PRIORITY SPECIES

Andy Sands / Mottled bee-fly (thyridanthrax fenestratus) bee fly who's larvae parasitize the nests of the digger wasp Ammophila pubescens, Surrey, England, UK, August

Andy Sands / Digger wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) carrying paralysed Mining bee (Andrena flavipes) back to burrow where the victim will be eaten by the wasp larvae, Surrey, England, UK

Andy Sands / Digger Wasp (Cerceris rybyensis) carrying paralysed Mining bee (Andrena flavipes) back to burrow where the victim will be eaten by the wasp larvae, Surrey, England, UK

MYN / Pierre Escoubas / White-banded digger bee (Amegilla quadrifasciata) Valbonne, France, August. Meetyourneighbours.net project.

Ammonite / Male Mining bee (Andrena praecox) attacking a Digger wasp (Sphex) at the entrance to a bee burrow, France, March.

Nick Upton / White-banded digger bee (Amegilla quadrifasciata), hovering as it nectars on Lantana flowers (Lantana camara), Kilada, Greece, August.