Wasp on Hogweed

I decided to try to get the garden birds a little more used to humans being around.  So I took a chair and sat quietly about a couple of metres (6 feet) away from the feeders.  It was surprising how many birds of many different species were prepared to ignore me.  OK things like the Woodpecker and Wood Pigeons didn't.

I hadn't chosen my position very well for photography, well not of birds anyway.  Between me and the feeders was a large head of Hogweed.  No not the Giant Hogweed but the common one.  The largest commonly seen white Umbellifer.

A wasp spent a long time wandering around seemingly feeding.  Unless it was finding very tiny insects I couldn't see this was interesting.  Wasps are carnivorous catching insects to feed themselves and their young.  The young exude a sweet fluid which satisfies the adults need for sweet things.  It is only (usually) as the nest begins to get smaller with the approach of autumn that the adults start to forage for sweet things and so become a nuisance.