On 5 Apr 2011 13:20:00 GMT, wrote:

I realised last summer that I'm very bad at identifying bees which aren't
bumble or honey bees. I've taken a photo of something that was slugging
around on the allotment and I assumed it was a wasp, but having looked a bit
closer (now it's HUGE rather than on a diddly screen), it looks a bit more
hairy than I had thought, so have I mis-assigned it to the wasp family?

http://www.flickr.com/photos/47493880@N00/5592174504/

Bumble bee. Wasps are smooth and the ordinary ones have very distinct
stripes as well as the equally pronounced famous wasp waist.

--
Mike.