Bee or not Bee

Adam Fikso adam14113@ameritech.net
Tue, 27 Apr 2010 10:37:14 PDT
If one types in:   Merodon distribution-- an all black narcisisus fly is 
pictured using Dogpile or Google
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nhu Nguyen" <xerantheum@gmail.com>
To: "Pacific Bulb Society" <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 27, 2010 12:33 PM
Subject: Re: [pbs] Bee or not Bee


> Hi David,
>
> What you're seeing is probably a carpenter bee, a relative of bumblebees.
>
> Nhu
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:12 AM, David Ehrlich 
> <idavide@sbcglobal.net>wrote:
>
>> Dear members
>>
>>   I have, in past years, had an interesting insect hover about my plants,
>> including my dwarf Meyer Lemon.  The insect looks like a rotund shiny,
>> solid-black bumblebee.  It never seems to land; it just hovers about the
>> flowers.  I live on the San Francisco Peninsula.  Does anyoine have an 
>> idea
>> of what this insect is?
>>
>> --
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