Hylaeus

walwyn Mon, 02/15/2010 - 23:41

Worldwide there are over 500 species of these wasp-like bees. They are generally hairless, black  with yellow-white faces small bees. They feed their larvae pollen, but being hairless cannot collect it in the normal manner, instead the female carries the pollen and nectar in her crop and regurgitates it into the cell into which she will lay an egg.

 

Marriage at Cana - Tewkesbury Abbey

walwyn Tue, 02/09/2010 - 19:57

Marriage at cana - Tewkesbury Abbey

 

 

This window by Hardman & Co. illustrates the first of Christ's Miracles.

 

Tyria jacobaeae

walwyn Sun, 02/07/2010 - 23:16

Tyria jacobaeae

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Tyria
Species: T. jacobaeae
Common name: Cinnabar moth.

 

 

Sermon on the Mount - Tewkesbury Abbey

walwyn Sun, 02/07/2010 - 13:41

Healing the Sick - Tewkesbury Abbey

 

 

Main panel of this Hardman window illustrates Jesus delivering the Sermon on the Mount.

Nativity - Tewkesbury Abbey.

walwyn Sat, 02/06/2010 - 22:45

Nativity

 

 

 

Hardman & Co representation of the Nativity

Megachilidae

walwyn Sat, 02/06/2010 - 01:55

A worldwide family of solitary bees commonly known as mason bees and leafcutter bees, due to the material that they use to build their nests.

 

 

Netelia testacea

walwyn Wed, 01/27/2010 - 19:45

 

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Ichneumonidae
Genus: Netelia
Species: N. testacea

 

 

Tenthredinidae

walwyn Sun, 01/24/2010 - 13:26

 

Tenthredinidae is the largest sawfly family. It has 6000 species worldwide, with  900 European species and some 400 that are found in the British Isles. In size they range from 2.5mm to 15mm in length, and are either black or brownish yellow in colour.

 

Lyddington

walwyn Thu, 01/21/2010 - 23:56

lyddington bede house 02

 Originally the late medieval wing of a palace belonging to the Bishops of Lincoln. By 1600 it had passed to Sir Thomas Cecil, son of Queen Elizabeth's chief minister, who converted it into an almshouse for twelve poor 'bedesmen' over 30 years old and two women (over 45), all free of lunacy, leprosy or the French pox.

Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York - Stanford on Avon

walwyn Thu, 01/21/2010 - 01:36

 

Consisting of five lights the left and right hand lights contain portraits of Henry Tudor and Elizabeth of York respectively, this lower part of the east window is loaded with symbols of the Tudor dynasty.

 

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