What kind of bee is this?

[89th]

It’s in a garden near me. It acts like a honey bee, but is larger and faster. I don’t think it’s an Asian hornet, but wouldn’t that be funny. I’d say it’s maybe 3” long.

[Mik]

I believe that is what they call a cicada killer wasp. They nest in the ground.

[Larry]

I researched the picture. From what I can determine it is called a white striped wasp, a species of sand wasp. It loves flowers, eats stink bugs, and is not aggressive, and unlikely to sting you unless you literally grab it.

Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus is the scientific name for it, if I'm correct in my view of what it is.

[Mik]

Larry is Latin-o. Who knew!

[Larry]

But since 89th said it's about 3 inches long Mik might be correct.

You guys would be more familiar with things that length than I would ........

( a joke. ... it's just a JOKE....)

[Horace]

Without looking at the other replies, I would guess that is "Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus". Either that or a cicada killer wasp.

[Larry]

Hahahaha

[Mik]

@Larry said in What kind of bee is this?:

But since 89th said it's about 3 inches long Mik might be correct.

You guys would be more familiar with things that length than I would ........

( a joke. ... it's just a JOKE....)

Oh, that stung, that did.

[89th]

@Horace said in What kind of bee is this?:

Without looking at the other replies, I would guess that is "Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus". Either that or a cicada killer wasp.

Thanks @Horace !!!

[89th]

Thanks @Mik and @Larry. Really helpful! At first I thought Larry nailed it (where’s the pie?) but the 3 stripes makes me think it’s the cicada killer. Either way, thanks!

[jon-nyc]

It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in What kind of bee is this?:

It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.

Would you mind capitalizing "Bee", then?

[George K]

@Klaus said in What kind of bee is this?:

@jon-nyc said in What kind of bee is this?:

It’s a bee of Color. Don’t kill it.

Would you mind capitalizing "Bee", then?

Mighty presumptuous of you there, Klaus. How do we know that "bee" should not be capitalized?

The Germans do it right - just capitalize all Nouns. Problem solved.

[Mik]

BeeLM.

Truth to be told, they matter more than BLM. The humans only pollinate other humans and we can't eat them. Well, we don't, anyway. Kill off enough bees and we might.

[Klaus]

@George-K said in What kind of bee is this?:

The Germans do it right - just capitalize all Nouns.

Yes, but in German nouns have a gender, and as you can imagine that opens up a whole new can of worms for the "woke" language police because they can't understand that linguistic gender is something completely different from biological or social gender; it merely happens to share the name "gender".

[George K]

@Klaus said in What kind of bee is this?:

@George-K said in What kind of bee is this?:

The Germans do it right - just capitalize all Nouns.

Yes, but in German nouns have a gender, and as you can imagine that opens up a whole new can of worms for the "woke" language police because they can't understand that linguistic gender is something completely different from biological or social gender; it merely happens to share the name "gender".

How short-sighted of me.

[Klaus]

@George-K Take the innocuous German word for student: Student.

It's "der Student". Male gender. Hence it has become unacceptable to address mixed groups of students as "Studenten".

You have to choose between

• "Studentinnen und Studenten" (but it's also not good because it includes only female and male gender"
• "Studierende" (which is the most common variant but it's rather silly because it's the continuous form of studying: a person who studies right now)
• "StudentIn" - this used to fashionable common 10 years ago by student groups
• "Student*in"
• "StudX"

[Doctor Phibes]

I always thought that Das Madchen was primarily created to confuse English schoolboys. Only now do I realise there's a far more insidious reason.

[George K]

@Doctor-Phibes said in What kind of bee is this?:

I always thought that Das Madchen was primarily created to confuse English schoolboys. Only now do I realise there's a far more insidious reason.

You're missing an umlaut....

[jon-nyc]

He’s missing a lot more than that.