Fantastic pictures as usual Wharfee.

I was at a client’s house the other afternoon, a lovely old couple, and they’d just sprayed and killed what they thought to be half a dozen wasps in their porch and, while standing well back, gave me all sorts of warnings and be carefuls as I trapsed through the 'wasp' corpses and into the house. And then this morning even my very bestest of best friends commented on how lovely all the 'bees' were in the honeysuckle over the porch.

In both cases they weren’t wasps or bees, they were hoverflies which I absolutely adore and are completely harmless. They also look nothing like wasps or honey bees. For the sake of the gormless:

A wasp:



A bee:



A hoverfly: