Bee and wasp like

[gcol]

That's a superb photo. I reckon I'd be a bit windy holding it though!

 

[Richardp]

What are those insects that you get in this country (UK) that look like wasps and have the same colourings but are much smaller?

That'll be a Hover fly
Brightly coloured winged insect. Hoverflies usually have spots, stripes, or bands of yellow or brown against a dark-coloured background, sometimes with dense hair covering the body surface. Many resemble bees, bumble bees, and wasps (displaying Batesian mimicry) and most adults feed on nectar and pollen. (Family Syrphidae (numbering over 2,500 species), suborder Cyclorrhapha, order Diptera, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda.)

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0008063.html

 

[notb665]

What are those insects that you get in this country (UK) that look like wasps and have the same colourings but are much smaller?

That'll be a Hover fly
Brightly coloured winged insect. Hoverflies usually have spots, stripes, or bands of yellow or brown against a dark-coloured background, sometimes with dense hair covering the body surface. Many resemble bees, bumble bees, and wasps (displaying Batesian mimicry) and most adults feed on nectar and pollen. (Family Syrphidae (numbering over 2,500 species), suborder Cyclorrhapha, order Diptera, class Insecta, phylum Arthropoda.)

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0008063.html

Thank you!

 

[empip]

That's a superb photo. I reckon I'd be a bit windy holding it though!

The stinger probe has probably been rendered useless or removed altogether - 1/4 ins long apparently.

30 kill 30,000 honey bees, to music, here :-
http://stream.eizodana.com/olympus/m01_hi.wmv

 

[Nige F]

I dunno why, but I read the title in a Geordie accent, like. Whayhayy etc.

 

[ohmygodwhathaveyoudone]

i call hover flys drone flys.dunno why.