Alex Hyde / Social Wasp colony {Hymenoptera} photographed against white background. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.
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Wild Wonders of Europe / Lesniewski / Wasps on nest, Bagerova Steppe, Kerch Peninsula, Crimea, Ukraine, July 2009
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Pete Oxford / Paper Wasps swarming in threat display on their nest, Ecuador, Amazon rainforest
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest, with cells at different levels of development. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest, with cells at different levels of development. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) building 'paper' nest from masticated wood. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) making 'paper' nest from masticated wood. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) on cells of their 'paper' nest, built from masticated wood. Tours, France, October.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) on fallen apple. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) feeding on fallen apple. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) in profile. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) in profile. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) swarming under tree. Tours, France, September.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) swarming through window pane. Tours, France, September.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) attracted to neon light near their nest. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / Swelling on human skin, the result of being stung by European Hornet (Vespa crabro). Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespo crabro) sting in human sting. **c, August.
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Roland Seitre / Woman observing a European Hornet (Vespa crabro) 'paper' nest. Tours, France, August 2006.
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Roland Seitre / Man photographing European Hornet (Vespa crabro) nest as the workers swarm around him. Tours, France, September 2007.
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Roland Seitre / Man using insecticide on European Hornet (Vespa crabro) nest as the workers swarm around him. Tours, France, September 2007.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) consuming insects at their nest. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) consuming a larvae. Workers can control sex-ratios and population structure through this behaviour. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) consuming a larvae. Workers can control sex-ratios and population structure through this behaviour. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) emerging from cell after metamorphosing from larva to adult wasp. Tours, France, August. Sequence 3 of 3.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) emerging from cell after metamorphosing from larva to adult wasp. Tours, France, August. Sequence 2 of 3.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) emerging from cell after metamorphosing from larva to adult wasp. Tours, France, August. Sequence 1 of 3.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) emerging from cell after metamorphosing from larva to adult wasp. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / Cross-section of European Hornet (Vespa crabro) nests, showing cells with larvae at different stages of metamorphosis from pupa to adult. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) adult emerging from cell; the surrounding cells contain larvae in their final stage of metamorphosis into adults. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / Cross-section of European Hornet (Vespa crabro) larvae in cells, showing different stages of development. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) larvae in its cell; the surrounding cells have been sealed as the larvae metaphorphose into adults. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) feeding larvae in cells. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornet (Vespa crabro) nest cells, containing eggs at different stages of development. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest, constructing cells for pupae development. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest on sealed cells, with the queen below (white abdoment). Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest, constructing new cells for pupae development. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) consuming a larvae. Workers can control sex-ratios and population structure through this behaviour. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest on sealed cells in which larvae pupate. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at their nest. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest, communicating by touching mandibles together. Tours, France, August.
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Roland Seitre / European Hornets (Vespa crabro) at nest, on sealed cells in which larvae pupate. Tours, France, August.
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Andy Sands / Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) nest with workers laying down new pulp. Hertfordshire, England, June.
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Andy Sands / Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) nest with worker laying down new pulp. Hertfordshire, England, June.
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Andy Sands / Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) nest with workers laying down new pulp. Hertfordshire, England, June.
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Andy Sands / Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) in garden shed with many wasps on outside. Hertfordshire, England, June.
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Andy Sands / Common Wasp (Vespula vulgaris) in garden shed with many wasps on outside. Hertfordshire, England, June.
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Pete Oxford / Opened Polybia Paper Wasp Nest showing internal structure. Cocaya River, Eastern Amazon Rain Forest, the border of Peru and Ecuador.
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Alex Hyde / Social Wasp on nest {Hymenoptera} photographed against white background. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.
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Alex Hyde / Social Wasp on nest {Hymenoptera} photographed against white background. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.
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Alex Hyde / Social Wasp on nest {Hymenoptera} photographed against white background. Masoala Peninsula National Park, north east Madagascar.
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Nick Garbutt / Social paper wasp colony (Polistinae) on nest. Lowland rainforest, Masoala National Park, Madagascar. (digital composite image)
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Rolf Nussbaumer / RF- Close up of Paper Wasp (Polistes sp.) on nest, Fennessey Ranch, Refugio, Coastal Bend, Texas Coast, USA. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Alan Watson / Wasp nest in tropical rainforest, Los Haitises National Park, Dominican Republic
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Nick Garbutt / Social Green paper wasp (Ropalidia sp) on paper nest. Ranomafana National Park, SE Madagascar.
Doug Wechsler / Eastern yellowjacket nest {Vespula maculifrons} with adults and larvae, Pennsylvania, USA
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Kim Taylor / Nest of Saxony wasp exposed to show workers tending larvae + eggs. UK.
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Kim Taylor / Nest of Saxony wasp exposed to show workers tending larvae + eggs. UK.
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Kim Taylor / RF- Saxony wasp (Dolichovespula saxonica) drone flying to rosebay flower, UK. (This image may be licensed either as rights managed or royalty free.)
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Kim Taylor / Nest of Saxony wasp {Dolichovespula saxonica} exposed to show workers tending
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Kim Taylor / Median / French wasp {Dolichovespula media} nest with workers ready to attack, Europe
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Kim Taylor / Saxony wasp queens at nest entrance waiting to be fed by returning workers, UK.
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Kim Taylor / Tree wasp nest {Vespula sylvestris} showing workers mutual feeding, UK.
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Kim Taylor / Common wasp worker banking to avoid another carrying debris from nest. UK {Vespula vulgaris}
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasp feeds on fruit in desert {Polistes carnifex carnifex} Mexico
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasp feeds on flowers with open nectaries {Polistes instabilis} Mexico
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps on nest in tropical dry forest. Madagascar {Polistes fastidiosus}
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps on nest beneath leaf {Mischocyttarus alfkenii trinitatis} Trinidad
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasp chews caterpillar into bolus to take back to nest {Stelopolybia pallipes} Trinidad
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PREMAPHOTOS / Nocturnal social wasps rest during day at nest in rainforest {Apoica pallens} Brazil
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasp scrapes wood off dead tree for nest, Chile {Polistes buyssoni}
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps cluster on nest in semi-desert. Chile {Polistes buyssoni}
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasp inspects pupating larvae {Polistes cavapyta} Argentina
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PREMAPHOTOS / Dominant social wasp chews wing of subordinate {Polistes cavapyta} Argentina
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps offer food bolus to larvae in cells {Polistes cavapyta} Argentina
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps chew food to make bolus for larvae, Australia {Polistes stigma townsvillensis}
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps {Polistes myersi currasavicus} on nest on cactus plant, Bonaire, Antilles
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps on nest in tropical dry forest {Ropalidia pomicolor} Madagascar
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PREMAPHOTOS / Small social wasps {Polybia occidentalis cinctus} from a swarm start to build A new nest under a Heliconia leaf. Trinidad
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Tony Heald / Sociable weaver's nest {Philetairus socius} with wasps' nests. Namibia
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps divide food bolus at nest (Polistes cavapyta) Argentina, South America
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PREMAPHOTOS / Social wasps at nest {Polistes instabilis} Mexico
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PREMAPHOTOS / Paper wasp (Polistes versicolor) with food bolus to feed larvae. Argentina
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Solvin Zankl / Social wasp at nest {Vesperidae} Amazonia, Brazil
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SINCLAIR STAMMERS / Wasp pupa in cells of wasp nest, UK
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Premaphotos / Social wasp (Apoica pallens) nocturnal species, resting on nest during day, Campo cerrado, Brazil
