Buff-tailed queen searches for a suitable mouse hole for her nest
Red-tailed queen collects pollen for her first brood
A hypnorum worker forages on iris
A worker from the first hatch returns home
Buff-tailed queen in search
Hypnorum of uncertain caste on barberry
A buff-tailed queen on barberry. She appears to have a mite on her thorax.
A rare B. soroeënsis forages on foxglove
Buff-tailed queen forages for the larvae of her first brood
A late buff-tailed queen on a rhododendron
Lucorum worker on rougle cocks foot
Subterraneus on teasel
Hypnorum worker by reddish clover - front view
Hypnorum by reddish clover
Pascuorum worker on reddish clover
Wurfleini/wurflenii worker
Hortorum queen on milkwort (Polygala)
Lapidarius queens and workers
Buff-tailed British queen (pure coincidence, Y.M.)
Red-tailed drone
Best quality Buff-tailed queen
Buff-tailed worker and queen
Red-tailed drone, best quality
Buff-tailed queen and red-tailed worker
Red-tailed queen from the last year's brood has found the site again