Death Row* for comparison

An Asian worker, an Asian queen and a European queen hornets.

It was early spring. Both queens were fresh out of hibernation and looking for somewhere to set up home! They both chose our place!

Bad choice ... (ツ)

            God slay the Asian queens and save our noble bees!

                 (ironically, to the tune of "God Save the Queen")

The Asian hornet worker was already dead when I found it, along with seversl others but that's another story.

Best viewed in lightbox and on full screen (F11), of course!

The gear! (new tab) - Shh!!! Mum's the word!

Take care and many thanks for calling,

Colin ... (ツ)

* death row = couloir de la mort

See also

Hornisse beim Klettern - Climbing hornet - Frelon grimpeur.

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Rieselfelder Münster Germany

An abandoned hornets nest.

Thanks to Cheryl Dunlop Molin and ~~Chuck's~~Photos~~ for correcting me. This is a hornets nest not a bird nest.

My first attempt at an insect macro.

Rieselfelder Münster Germany

Our local wood, Kent UK

Im Flug erwischt

Our local wood, Kent UK,

A fly that has just bee in a web and weaved by a spider now being decapitated by a hornet

Ruby-throated Hummingbird was sitting bravely while this big hornet was intimidating it for a second or two. It did not take much for the Hummingbird to scare him off ;) !

F-18C's of Fliegerstaffle 18 head out to runway "07" at Sion AFB.

Macro Mondays : All Natural

As seen in Watord on a walk.

I noticed a few Hornets feeding on sap running from an old Oak tree. I returned later and drizzled some honey on the bark to keep them in one area to photograph them.

Hornet - Vespa crabro

This beast is the uk's largest hoverfly at around 2cm long that's a big old fly - Norfolk

Many thanks to all those who fave or comment always very much appreciated

Another from Saturday

Catcott heath

Heathaze

Abruzzo National Park - August 2016

An Hornet dances in flowers fields on the top of Monte Amaro at the end of summer.

Wounded (part of the right wing missing) European hornet (Vespa crabro) on a tombstone.

Seems to think he is a bat, Looks happy enough lunching on a bug of some sort

West Wales

Hornet - Vespa crabro

Hunting in the bramble flowers... Just missed this Black and Yellow Longhorn ~ Rutpela maculata

Loxley woods. Somerset

Walking around my patch today Newton St Loe surprised to find a Lunar Hornet Moth on the path, my first so very excited to get a few pictures, no lure. You just never know what your gonna find!

Hornet

An image from last weekends Airshow London, this time a pair of CF-18 Hornets. The weather that day was mostly cloudy as a weather system had just passed through the area in the morning. Luckily for this shot though, the sun was able to break through giving some great light and the jets and adding some terrific contrast as they passed by a darker cloud in the sky.

Thanks for viewing and wishing everyone continued good health. Keep well :)

Autumn bokeh

Everybody loves a Hornet. :@)

From tonight's penumbral lunar eclipse, viewed from Alameda, CA. That's the USS Hornet Aircraft Carrier.

Shot with the 645 A*600mm f/5.6 plus 1.4x teleconvertor. This is a composite to lower the position of the moon in the sky.

Hope you like it.

Bald faced hornet ( Dolichovespula maculata)