Symmorphus bifasciatus
This species has a black and yellow banded abdomen.
Adults seem to prefer damp places, often near streams and ditches, and their flight paths are associated with patches of foliage in full sunlight.
May to October; but mainly from June to August, with July being the peak month.
Preys on beetle larvae which are taken to the nest and stored in larval chambers.
Widespread and fairly frequent in Britain.
Fairly frequent in Leicestershire and Rutland.
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
09 July 2017
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
09 July 2017
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
08/07/2017
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
08/07/2017
Jonesboy1
Watermead Country park
10 July 2016
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
08/07/2017
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Species profile
- Species group:
- Bees, Wasps, Ants
- Kingdom:
- Animalia
- Order:
- Hymenoptera
- Family:
- Vespidae
- Records on NatureSpot:
- 12
- First record:
- 12/07/2013 (Peacock, H A)
- Last record:
- 11/06/2023 (Poole, Adam)
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David Gould
The Spearwort Fields
06 August 2017
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
08/07/2017
Jonesboy1
Watermead Country park
10 July 2016
Jonesboy1
Watermead Country park
10 July 2016
Kate Nightingale
Cropston garden
16 July 2017
HAPeacock
Leicester Garden
12 July 2013
Symmorphus bifasciatus
