Heather Angel / Saxon wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica) and Common red soldier beetles (Rhagonycha fulva) feeding on Broad leaved helleborine (Epipactis helleborine). Surrey, England, UK. August.

Doug Wechsler / Bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) worker feeding at alcohol flux - fermented sap- on white oak trunk (Quercus) Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Doug Wechsler / Bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) worker feeding at alcohol flux - fermented sap- on white oak trunk (Quercus) Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Doug Wechsler / Bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) worker feeding at alcohol flux - fermented sap- on white oak trunk (Quercus) Fort Washington State Park, Pennsylvania, USA

Doug Wechsler / Bald-faced hornets (Dolichovespula maculata) around alcoholic flux, a stress related disease that causes foam like sap to bleed from wounds in the bark, Washington State Park, Pennsylvania, USA, July.

John Abbott / Baldfaced Hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) Junipers Reservoir, Lake View, Lake County, Oregon, USA, June.

Michael Durham / Bald faced hornet {Dolicho- vespula maculata} in flight, Oregon, USA

Michael Durham / Bald faced hornet {Dolicho- vespula maculata} in flight, Oregon, USA

Michael Durham / Bald faced hornet {Dolicho- vespula maculata} in flight, Oregon, USA

Doug Wechsler / Bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) hibernating inside a log, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. November.

Doug Wechsler / Bald-face hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) drinking fermented sap (alcohol flux) from tree bark, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA. September.

Doug Wechsler / Close up of Bald-faced hornet (Dolichovespula maculata) nest, natural paper made of different fibers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. October.