>
> It is important to distinguish between the intermorphs and ordinary robber
> bees, which are also "shiny black bees"
>

Do these intermorphs do ordinary bee-things like foraging? I took a 
picture of a bee this past summer that was foraging on some wild 
primrose and was struck by it's odd appearance:

http://www.sweettimeapiary.com/pics/Bees_On_Flowers/target101.html

Clearly it's an old bee, judging from the frayed edges of it's wings, 
but only it's abdomen is really hairless- it's got plenty of hair on 
it's thorax and head. It this an intermorph?

George-

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