Puleeze! Can we have some species names? This discussion is
useless this way.
 
Susan Nielsen
 
>> Now I am really confused.  It was my understanding that the difference
>> between bees and wasps was that bees were adapted to use pollen as their
>> protein source (vegetarian :) and wasps used insects (carnivorous :).
>> But you have just described a carpenter BEE with WASPLIKE behaviour.
 
>I stand corrected.  The Carpenter Bee does use pollen and nectar for
>its young.  The main difference that people need to note is that the
>Bumble Bee is a social insect and lives in colonies and the Carpenter
>Bee is a solitary insect and each bee makes an individial hole not
>shared with other bees.
 
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