I have seen no evidence of Merodon locally and have many dozens of undamaged narcissus and daffodils. BUT... am spooked by the idea that it might have invaded an arisaema (unknown species with very large tuber--possibly asperatum ) which had begun to rot and showed a small pale annulate 3/4" worm emerging from the main growing node after I put pressure on it to see how soft the tuber was this afternoon. If that was not a larva of Merodon what could it be? I haven't heard of any invertebrate animal pests of Arisaemas. ----- 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? >> >> -- > http://www.flickr.com/photos/xerantheum/ > _______________________________________________ > pbs mailing list > pbs@lists.ibiblio.org > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/list.php > http://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbswiki/