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Honeybee foraging on a borage flower. LISA DAFFY
Bumblebee LISA DAFFY
A honeybee gathering nectar. COURTESY LIANE POMFRET
Yellow jacket COURTESY WISEGEEK
A honey bee. DANA SHAW
A honey bee. DANA SHAW
A yellow jacket.
A yellow jacket.
Honeybees take a lot of flak for the ill manners of yellow jackets
How to tell the difference?
* Yellow jackets have no fuzz. They’re streamlined, like a sidewinder missile.
* Honeybees are fuzzy and plump, like teensy stuffed animals.
Plumper still are bumblebees, which are really too cute to be bugs
at all.
* Yellow jackets have sharply defined yellow and black stripes.
They look like they mean business.
* Honeybees have softly defined bands ranging from dark yellow to
dark brown and black.
* Yellow jacket wings are more elongated than those of honeybees,
and their movement is staccato and rapid.
* Honeybees move more slowly, both flying and foraging,
than do yellow jackets.
27east on Oct 8, 2015