Identification of Hymenoptera (wasps, bees, ants)

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03.03.2008 21:00, IchMan

Well, I'm late again...
I can only add a third photo each. This is a wasp from the genus Tiphia (family Tiphiidae). Most likely Tiphia femorata. The wasp is quite common even in the north of the Leningrad region. It lays eggs on the larvae of various lamellate beetles.
By the way, it is interesting: in the photo it is on the flowers of milkweed and all my specimens are collected on the flowers of milkweed.

So that's what you

're like Tiphia Now I'll know, thank you.
I've never seen it in person. In Karelia, only T. minuta was recorded, which I did not catch myself. And from the rest of the photos, you can already make out both the venation and the shape of the eyes, the characteristic structure of the notum - so then the definition is already a matter of technique.
Judging by the color of the middle and back thighs (and size) this is exactly Tiphia femorata

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05.03.2008 14:23, Konstantin Shorenko

No, well, I understand that. We don't have Sceliphrons here anymore. We have a bad situation with stinging hymenoptera. Even near Moscow is already better.
I'm trying to catch him in the south. In the same Crimea. I caught a lot of bee-wasps in the Crimea.

I didn't catch it either. But last year the topic started

to change . I even caught Sceliphron madraspatanum! It is a typical southern Mediterranean species, and is found in the south-east of the Crimea. caementarium came across regularly-from Kerch to Karadag, which has never happened before (I have been collecting in these places since 1997). In Alushta, I even saw Chalybion! And this is generally a Central Asian critter! True, I didn't catch it, but it's hard to confuse it with something else - they're like Sceliphrons, only metallic blue in color and glow in the sun!!!

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03.04.2008 2:02, Ekos

No, Sergey, the bee is wrong. It does not live in flocks, but alone, making nests by gnawing out cavities in wood ( for which it is called the carpenter bumblebee). Generally no use.
I wonder if it really goes that far north? I often visited the Saratov region - I never met it (although I really wanted to). After all, global warming.....

I also visited the Saratov region several times and I got the impression that this is a common species

, although the Red Book of the region indicates that this is an extremely rare species, such as there have been no finds at all recently. One X. valga from there is in my collection, I didn't really catch them.
to Omar:
nothing like that, that it stings very painfully!

I was stung once. The pain is small, as if from a bumblebee sting, after half an hour disappears