Image Gallery: Sawflies, ants, bees and wasps
Sawflies (Suborder Symphyta) and ants, bees and wasps (Suborder Apocrita) all belong to the insect Order Hymenoptera. Some species have one pair of wings (unlike flies, which have two pairs), others are wingless, some are solitary and some are colonial, building large nests. Many have interesting shapes, colours and patterns that help to identify them, while others are cleverly camouflaged or mimic their insect prey.

Potter Wasp
Potter Wasp, genus Paralastor
Rebecca Johnson with honey bee comb
Robber fly with captured bee
Sand Wasp, genus Bembix
Sawfly larvae feeding
Sawfly on leaf
Single Funnel Ant nest entrance
Specimen of a Cuckoo Bee
Spider Wasp on leaf
Steel-blue sawfly larva
Stingless Bee Trigona carbonaria
Tiphiid flower wasp
Wasp larva eating spider from the outside in
White Banded bee specimen