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Old 29-05-2007, 03:44 AM posted to alt.home.lawn.garden
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Default Are these carpenter bees?

On May 27, 8:58 pm, Eggs Zachtly wrote:
Red said:

[...]

The difference is the carpenter bee is
about half yellow and half black where the bumble bee is predominantly
black with a much smaller amount of white/yellow.


Horsehockey. Color has nothing to do with it. There are five species of
carpenter bees in the US, and they vary in color schemes by species, as
well as by sex. A carpenter bee has a shiny abdomen. A bumble bee's is
covered in hair.


Then tell the entomoligist his web site is showing wrong color.
http://www.ca.uky.edu/entomology/entfacts/ef611.asp