The pics are not very sharp but I thought good enough for ID..
The closest I found in my insect book is Anthidium loti, but then I couldn't find any pics of it on the web. The book describes this specie with legs that are entirely yellow like mine and the sides of the thorax also yellow, but then it also says that in Belgium only A.manicatum, A. punctatum and Anthidiellum strigatum occurs..
Here you can see the yellow sides on the thorax..
CLOSED: A specie of Anthidium?..
A google for 'Anthidium' brings up a lot of pics, mainly A. manicatum which looks very similar.
http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&q=Anthidium&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
I might look further into it later, there looks to be quite a few sites.
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/Europe/Belgium/photo90900.htm
http://www.pbase.com/christl_herremans/image/81638069
http://www.treknature.com/gallery/photo90817.htm
http://www.biolib.cz/en/gallery/dir1363/pos42,21/?viewall=1
In fact that is the only one I'm finding with a search including 'belgium'
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Anthidium+belgium&btnG=Search&meta=
Thank you wallaby!
Yes, I also thought it looked very much like A.manicatum, but then the upper part of its legs are dark, while mine are entirely yellow like described for A.loti in my book. I meant that I couldn't find pics of that one on the web.
Now I see I didn't send the right picture that shows the legs;
I can see black on the upper parts of the legs in this pic,
http://davesgarden.com/community/forums/fp.php?pid=5083745
I see, perhaps the yellow legs in the last photo were due to the light angle..
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