Charles Darwin might be grabbing most of the science headlines of late for being the ‘father of evolution’, but we mustn’t forget the other fathers of biology. Linnaeus, for example, the father of taxonomy had his own celebration of three hundred years since his birth a couple of years ago.

The Linnean Society of London was integral in Darwin’s story for it was there, in 1858, that Darwin’s and Alfred Russell Wallace’s papers about evolution were first read. So it’s no surprise that the society is holding its own suite of Darwin celebrations.

But apart from that, it has just released an online image collection of the Hymenoptera (bees, wasps, sawflies and ants) that sit in the society’s collection. You can take a look for yourself later this evening.

Until then, here is a ruby-tailed wasp (Chrysis ignita L.) and a red tailed bumble bee (Bombus lapidarius (L.). Try and work out which is which.