What kind of bee is this?
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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.
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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....)
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Without looking at the other replies, I would guess that is "Bicyrtes quadrifasciatus". Either that or a cicada killer wasp.
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@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?
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@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?
@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.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@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.
@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".
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@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".
@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.
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@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.
@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"
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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.
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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.
@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....
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@George-K said in What kind of bee is this?:
You're missing an umlaut
I heard a story yesterday that Motley Crue added the umlauts because they thought it made them look more Teutonic, and then when they played in Germany were surprised when the crowd all chanted "Muttley Cruh!"
