Bee – Wasp – Hornet of Singapore

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Asian Honey Bee – Apis cerana

Apis cerana, the eastern honey bee, Asiatic honey bee or Asian honey bee, is a species of honey bee native to southern, southeastern, and...

Banded Paper Wasp

Common name(s): Banded paper wasp/Banded Polistes (in Poisonous Animals of Malaysia by M. Tweedie) Scientific Name: Polistes sagittarius This is a species with quite a wide...

Black Dwarf Honey Bee

Apis andreniformis, or the black dwarf honey bee, is a relatively rare species of honey bee whose native habitat is the tropical and subtropical...

Black Mud-dauber Wasp

Scientific name: Sceliphron javanum Sceliphron, also known as black mud daubers or black mud-dauber wasps, is a genus of Hymenoptera of the Sphecidae family of...

Black Potter Wasp – Allorhynchium argentatum

Allorhynchium argentatum is a species of wasp in the family Vespidae. Wikipedia Spotted at Yishun Park

Black-notched Cloak and dagger Bee

Thyreus ceylonicus is a species of bee belonging to the family Apidae in subfamily Apinae Wikipedia Thyreus is an Old World genus of bees, one of many that are commonly known...

Blue Carpenter Bee – Xylocopa caerulea

Blue Carpenter Bee - Xylocopa caerulea is a species of carpenter bee. Wikipedia Location: Singapore Poly - Dover - March 2023 Xylocopa caerulea is on Singapore Stamps...

Blue Spider wasp

Scientific name: Auplopus comparatus Auplopus is a large genus of spider wasps belonging to the subfamily Pepsinae of the spider wasp family Pompilidae, distributed throughout...

Broad-handed Carpenter Bee – Xylocopa latipes

Broad-handed Carpenter (Xylocopa latipes) Black thorax and abdomenMales have broadened front legs Xylocopa latipes, the tropical carpenter bee, is a species of carpenter bee widely dispersed...

Ceratina collusor – Small carpenter bee

The cosmopolitan bee genus Ceratina, often referred to as small carpenter bees, is the sole lineage of the tribe Ceratinini, and closely related to...

Ceratina Nigrolateralis

Noticed only by the sharp-eyed, Ceratina nigrolateralis is a tiny bee with a glossy black and yellow body, often seen foraging alone on a wide variety...

Ceratina Perforatrix

Ceratina perforatrix is a relatively small bee, the female is 9 to 10.5 mm long, the male 8 to 9 mm. The body is metallic shiny...

Cloak and dagger Bee – Thyreus himalayensis

Thyreus is an Old World genus of bees, one of many that are commonly known as cuckoo bees, and are cleptoparasites of other species...

Combed-Sweat Bee

The sweat bee genus Lasioglossum is the largest of all bee genera, containing over 1700 species in numerous subgenera worldwide. They are highly variable...

Common Paper Wasp – Ropalidia timida

Ropalidia is a large genus of eusocial paper wasps in the tribe Ropalidiini distributed throughout the Afrotropical, Indomalayan and Australasian biogeographical regions. The genus...