Slender-bodied digger wasp (Crabro cribrarius) male nectaring on Common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylium) flowers, Kenfig NNR, Glamorgan, Wales, UK June

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Slender-bodied digger wasp (Crabro cribrarius) male nectaring on Common hogweed (Heracleum sphondylum) flowers, Kenfig NNR, Glamorgan, Wales, UK, June. Males use the flattened shields on their front legs to cover the eyes of females during courtship, perhaps for species recognition.

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