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Kansas Insect (Black Bee/Wasp?) Identification
I live in Kansas (Pottawatomie County), and I found a bee-like insect in my bedroom. The creature looked like this:
The insect about 5 cm long in size (as you can compare it with the window blind), ...
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Identify a large wasp (?) from southern Poland
This insect has appeared "out of nowhere" in one of my rooms. Can you help me identify it?
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location: Katowice, Upper Silesia, southern Poland, eastern Europe (46.42 N, 17.78 E),
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Bumblebee (?) identification
These bumblebees live on my balcony, in ventilation holes in doors and windows. I'm trying to find the exact name of the species, but I can't find any that look exactly like this. Their top segment is ...
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Is this a carpenter bee?
This bee visits our balcony every day multiple times, but only for a brief time, making it hard to take a good picture:
Here's another picture, I finally got lucky so I'm adding it to the question:
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Large Alpine Hymenopteran Seen in the White Mountains
I was hiking in the White Mountains in New Hampshire, USA, and at the peak of Mount Eisenhower saw a number of large bee-like insects. They appeared to be nesting in a rock cairn, and were strikingly ...
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What kind of bee can dig through stone?
My house (in Israel) has a concrete structure, with a decorative veneer of Jerusalem Stone at least an inch thick. Yesterday I came out to discover a little hole in the wall - and a pair of bees ...
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Which species of bee or wasp are in this photo?
Please tell me what do you think :)
The photo is from Santander, Colombia. I didn’t take any closeups photos 😞, but these were little bees, like 5 x 1 mm. The tube didn’t seem man-made, it was ...
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