Insect id- any ideas?
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It looks to me to be some type of BEE, which would be beneficial
Bee, or a wasp is what I am thinking. Possibly a hornet too. Either way, he’s a keeper.
The coloring looks like a bald faced hornet. They have white markings on head and are very aggressive. They build large paper nest. If you find a nest call a professional or county extension agent.
It’s a honey bee.....please don’t send him to insect heaven, as I think I read that the number of honey bees is decreasing for some reason. We definitely need them for pollination of food crops and flowers!
It is not a bald faced hornet nor a honey bee. A bald faced hornet is mostly black NOT striped and has a distinctive flat face that is whitish and surrounds large black eyes. A honey bee is brownish orange, fuzzy and thin brown strips. One picture shows wings that cover the thorax and the other the wings are much shorter. This looks more like a tiphiid wasp. They drink nectar and the larvae feed on destructive May beetles. It's a keeper.
its a yellow jacket
put your pic on this page > " What's that bug " or "insects of the Eastern United States "
Sounds logical. If you get within 20ft from their nest they can attack violently. I understand they often build directly on a house and this can be problem. I'm not in favor of just killing any bees, just saying be careful.
Try sending these pics to your Agricultural office. They can help to definitely ID it!
Could be an Africanized bee.
Sure looks like the ones my uncle had in boxes/hives and extracted honey from.....also looks like the honey bee pictures on the internet. What is it, please?
Megachilidae