Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Bumble Bee (Bombus terricola occidentalis).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bee

Honey Bee, Honeybee or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Honey Bees, Honeybees or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Paper Wasp (Polistes annularis).

Black and Yellow Mud Dauber (Sceliphron caementarium).

Black and yellow mud dauber (Sceliphron caementarium).

Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus)

Red Paper Wasp (Polistes annularis).

Red Paper Wasp (Polistes annularis).

Smokey Winged Beetle Bandit (Cerceris fumipennis); is the only species of buprestid-hunting Crabronidae occurring in eastern North America. It has been recorded collecting Emerald Ash Borer, a pest insect known for killing north American species of Ash trees.

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Potter Wasps or Mason Wasps (Eumenes fraternus).

Ichneumon Wasps, Scorpion Wasps, Giant Ichneumon Wasp, or Ichneumon Flies,(Megarhyssa macrurus) is a parasitic wasp. This is a female depositing its eggs in the same hole where a female Pigeon Horntail (Tremex columba) just deposited its eggs.

Ichneumon Wasps, Scorpion Wasps, Giant Ichneumon Wasp, or Ichneumon Flies,(Megarhyssa macrurus) is a parasitic wasp. This is a female depositing its eggs in the same hole where a female Pigeon Horntail (Tremex columba) just deposited its eggs.

Ichneumon Wasps, Scorpion Wasps, Giant Ichneumon Wasp, or Ichneumon Flies,(Megarhyssa macrurus) is a parasitic wasp. This is a female depositing its eggs in the same hole where a female Pigeon Horntail (Tremex columba) just deposited its eggs.

European Hornet; Giant Hornet (Vespa crabro).

Worker Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons).

Worker Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons).

Worker Yellowjacket (Vespula maculifrons).

Thread-Waisted Wasp

Thread-Waisted Wasp (Eremnophila aureonotata)

Honey Bee, honeybee

Honey Bee, Honeybee or European Honey Bee (Apis mellifera).

Great Black Wasp

This is a great black wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus) on a rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium). They are also known as digger wasps and katydid hunter.

Golden Digger Wasp

This is a great golden digger wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus) on a rattlesnake master (Eryngium yuccifolium). They are also known as; digger wasp, or great golden sand digger.

Bee Wolf

Beewolves (Philanthus sp.), also known as bee-hunters or bee-killer wasps,

Velvet Ant

A female Velvet Ant (Dasymutilla occidentalis)., Red Velvet Ant, Eastern Velvet Ant, Common Eastern Velvet Ant, Cow Ant, and Cow Killer. They are called a cow killer, because it is said that their sting is so painful, it seems like it is bad enough to kill a cow.