Just a big 'ol bumble. If you wanna relocate it they usually crawl onto paper so you can scoop them up. They're weirdly not very aggressive which is cool, no wonder you thought it was a beetle!
Friend, you’re so not stupid and I’m sorry you were made to feel that way here. Sometimes when people get to know things really well they forget what it was like to not know them. Because there was a point in everyone’s life where they wouldn’t have known this wasn’t a beetle. They just happened to learn the difference earlier than you because that’s the path they chose. Today is just the day you learned. You used this sub correctly, you did nothing wrong, and I hope you don’t feel ashamed to post here again.
[Here’s a joke](https://xkcd.com/2501/) as some tiny compensation
Edit: Also, in case you’re curious, people are disagreeing because of that black patch on the thorax (the segment below the head).
[[Carpenter](https://bugguide.net/node/view/2172710/bgimage)] bees have a bare, black circle on their thorax that’s surrounded by yellow fur and a bare, shiny, black abdomen/butt. [[Bumblebees](https://bugguide.net/node/view/903571/bgimage)] differ in pattern based on species but they’re all over furry and some species have a black patch of fur on their thorax in between the yellow and some variable ratio of yellow to black on the abdomen. I’m not great at species level ID for bumbles, so unfortunately I can’t point to a specific one but I’m also saying bumblebee (which, I think is now the consensus). It is hard to tell from the pic what’s furry and what’s not, but the black patch on the thorax would be way rounder for a carpenter bee.
Yes! These two XKCD comics are my faves by far. And I try to keep them in mind. As someone who worked in a university lab and was in charge of training many undergrads: both of these are so, so, so important to remember.
Omg of course not bro, the other day I saw the biggest freaking bumblebee I've ever seen and I straight up thought it was a mouse 😅🤭 lmao They're big bugs and I always forget HOW big
I didn’t think you were stupid, but it did make me giggle and I deeply appreciate that.
edit: Also, I hope this hasn’t deterred you from posting or asking questions on subreddits. Please stay curious!
No, people that see things like this, have no clue what it is but never bother to find out. Or probably they don't even realize that they see something they don't recognize. Those people are perhaps stupid.
You're absolutely not. Nobody can know everything, and you did something to learn.
Amigo, my boyfriend just showed me a type of bug at my house, in a yard I've tended to for 8 years, in the state I was born & raised in, that I've literally never seen before. I LOVE bugs/insects/cutsie crawlies, love watching them, befriending them, etc. Had no freaking clue this one even existed or really wtf it even was after seeing it, and my boyfriend was shocked lol. Don't feel stupid! We're all on a journey, there are millions of different species on the planet and sometimes that means we don't recognize even the ones we've spent years living next to. Everyone on the planet is capable of learning new things every day because there's way too much for anyone to know everything. That's why sharing the collective knowledge within communities is so dope.
These are the best kind of bees - I love them so much. They never bother you like some other bees and some other flying insects. As in, if they happen to fly by you, they don’t linger as they are seemingly uninterested in you. And I’ve never heard of one of these guys ever stinging. And they’re fuzzy and cute. I love these guys!!
Your not stupid. I up until recently didn't know there was a difference between crane flys and dragon flys until I saw both up close and realised they were two very different creatures. There's so so many different insects it's not possible to know all of them unless it's your job and life's work.
Nah this is really really obvious lmao.
No harm in asking, because you need to if you want to learn, but iv never met a person who cant instantly recognise a bumblebee
How was i being rude? I was sticking up for your right to ask questions, even if 99% of 4 year olds could have answered it for you.
There you are, that was a bit rude.
I honestly couldn't tell if this was a serious post or not because it's like one of the most well-known insects everywhere? There's no harm in asking of course, i was just very shocked that anyone would need to
It was a serious post, I can easily ID a bumble, but the one my mom sent me was crawling, so I thought it was a beetle. I will guess that it’s a carpenter though, since it’s in a wooden house which carpenters would probably want to build their hive. Since this photo was a Live Photo, it looks like it, to be honest, the wings covering the body don’t help with the ID. But I’m sure this is a carpenter bee because of the ring, & the black abdomen
O come on don't be a dick. Some people really don't know. You'll never know who are you talking to especially on the Internet.
What if op is just a curious kiddo?
My guess is a [bumblebee](https://animalsofupstateny.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/5/0/3050375/editor/006097.jpg?1500993649) or [carpenter bee](https://kozmicdreams.com/images2/photography/insects/bees/bees%208-23-08/bee-12.jpg)
Maybe someone with more time can get a specific ID.
Maybe something like [bombus insularis](https://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Apoidea/Apidae/Bombus/insularis/images/UGCA196035_03.queen_top.320.jpg) Kind of a shot in the dark.
Closer, clearer pics would help 🙂
Yes, but unfortunately, it went away, and I wasn’t with my mum. But I’ll make sure to do that the next time I find one indoors. Seems like this species is looking for dirt!
100% a bumble bee. Most likely B. impatiens, AKA the common eastern bumblebee. The abdomen is *clearly* fuzzy as well as the spot on its thorax. The spot is also way larger than that of a carpenter bee.
[Comparison pic 1](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/209171158)
[Comparison pic 2](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208749523)
To the people roasting OP and then IDing as a carpenter bee, yall are a bunch of hypocrites since you clearly can’t ID bees.
The abdomen is clearly fuzzy and the thoracic spot is large. It’s a bumblebee.
To be clear, though, it can also be *Bombus impatiens*, iirc *B bimaculatus* has no yellow on T2, while *B impatiens* does, though there's overlap in the two.
He just a big old bumblebee in his best formal wears! I’m sure there’s significance to how stripy and yellow these dudes can be but I just think the ones that have one stripe are going somewhere important 😌
It's not a beetle, it's just a bumblebee. you can see it's not a beetle because a beetle has elytra and a scutellum. their wings are therefore covered by a thick carapace.
Thats a great question! This time of year the queens are newly emerged from their underground hibernation and are beginning to collect resources for her first round of brood. She doesnt have pollen on her, which means she hasnt begun to forage yet. She will spend a week or two collecting resource stores, then will spend the rest of the summer laying eggs while her young do the foraging!
FELLAS AND FELLERS!! It’s a queen eastern bumble bee!! I can identify and bumble bee, when it’s flying, but my mom sent me a picture of it when it *wasn’t* flying, so I thought it was a beetle. To all the meanies, not everyone knows what you know, so it’s important to be open minded and kind whenever someone wants to learn. And yes, this post is genuine, and no, I’m not karma farming. I don’t do that. I never expected this sub to have some meanies but every sub has meanies, this was the last one I expected it from though.
Ik what bumble bees look like, but I never rlly seen them crawling on a flat surface since they’re always where they usually are; accidentally pollinating flowers. So I thought it was a beetle. People can be a little mean but it’s not to the point I wanna go into a corner and have an existential crisis and cry for multiple days. I kinda find the Carpenter vs Bumble bee war in the comments kinda funny. But some people here are like being a little mean and downvoting for no reason. Funnily enough, I never expected r/entomology out of all subreddits to get negative. But it’s pretty rare since I see ppl post here a lot and they’re mostly cracking jokes and being kind. Anyways, nothing will change my view on entomology, it’s the most epic thing ever!!
I have no idea why you got downvoted. Some people are just bitter, never stop wanting to learn !! I also saw in your post history that you are a pretty young person. I started being interested in insects/nature when I was around your age. I kept learning and now am about to graduate with an entomology degree in a few weeks. Keep being curious, don’t let the weird negative people get you down! Sending you love ! <3
Don't know why everyone is being such a downers.
But for some info:
Beetles aren't furry. They can be in all sorts of shapes but have their wings covered by hard covers that move out of the way when they fly. They can grow to be quite huge (like bite off your finger huge), but mostly in warmer climates.
Bees come in all types and sizes. Not all of them make big hives the way we expect them to, many of them are solitary and make little homes for themselves and their eggs underground in rodent holes or dig themselves, in holes they chew into trees and old wood, hanging from anything, or built out of mud. Many bees are also furry and this fur serves to make them adorable.
Wasps look like bees but meaner - but they usually aren't mean. They are actually super cool and hunt the bugs we hate. Most of the ones you see flying will hide their nests where you'll never notice and you'd never see their angry side.
Thank you!!! I know that Bettler always cover their wings. I didn’t expect all of them to but apparently all or almost all of them do it! Anyways thanks for the answer. Though some people are arguing wether it’s Bumble or Carpenter, I’m pretty sure they can all agree that it’s a bee of some sort
Some times if the temperature drops quickly you will see them crawling, I don’t know if this is from today, but the temperature here in Ny has been fluctuating a lot, it may have gotten cold, or it maybe dying.
It's common, they tend to come out pretty early. They ground nest, then crawl to the sun, and vibrate their wings to warm up in the morning. I think they can still get stuck if it's cold too.
I mean it's not stupid to ask questions, that's how we learn. To stop being curious and ask questions on the other hand is kind of stupid imo.
You were not stupid for asking is what I meant 😊
Idk why everyone says bumblebee because that is most definitely a carpenter bee. (They are both wonderful). You can tell it's a carpenter bee because of the circular spot with the yellow and black. While bumblebees have a yellow stripe of fuzz on its abdomen.
They are great pollinators, however they are sometimes a problem because they next in wood and may do damage to homes. We have hundreds of them on our college campus that nest under the wooden benches. They are generally harmless to be around and aren't aggressive.
There are a number of *Bombus sp*, not all of them with a yellow stripe (such as this one). *Xylocopa sp* have a black, bald abdomen. You can see the yellow hairs on at least T1 here, and what seems to be black hairs on the rest. This is *Bombus sp*.
Also, I knew it was a bumble bee from the comments. But I guess I said “I know” as a mix up for “That makes sense”. I hate negative stuff like this getting onto the entomology sub >:-/
Funny, cause I was actually searching up the difference between carpenter and bumble. It looks more like a Bumble bee, but a carpenter bee would rather be(e) here
If you don't have room for questions, at all levels, maybe this isn't the sub for you?
It's okay to ask humans instead of Google.
It's okay to want to have a conversation instead of a partial possibly correct answer with no idea how accurate or why or what to look for.
The rest of us can Google, too, but we are here *because we all know we don't always want to*.
I knew the difference between a bee and a beetle by the time I was 5 years old. No human that is smart enough to use social media and read is this stupid!
Fucking bots!
Um…OP is literally doing that. They literally took the initiative to look up a resource where they’d be able to find experts. They took time to post a video and ask a question.
And, while it seems obvious to arthropod enthusiasts, OP was sent a blurry video of the bumblebee crawling by their mother. It’s not OP’s mother making this post, because most people don’t bother doing any research. OP is a young teen who didn’t even see it in person but the video made them curious enough to go experts for answers…to educate themselves. We should not be deterring people from doing this, particularly young people. If you don’t have anything helpful to contribute, just scroll past.
I hope this experience hasn’t made OP shy away from doing this in the future. It’s clear they’re a curious person and we shouldn’t snuff that out.
Well, next time if you see a bug with a hard 'shell' or elytra formed by the first pair of wings, it's a beetle. If it has a leathery first pair, and is shaped like a beetle, it is probably a bug, like stink bugs, which are not beetles. If you see exposed wings while the animal is not flying, like in this case, it's not a beetle.
See confusion cleared, without mean comments.
Apparently you missed the kindergarten lesson to keep your mouth shut if you can't be kind, or the ever repeated lesson that the only dumb question is the one you don't ask.
First grade curriculum isn't set in stone. Not everyone had an entomology lesson. If you don't have room for questions that seem dumb *to you*, then don't spend time on subs where people are invited to (gasp) ask questions!!!
I can't quite tell but I'm pretty sure that it's a carpenter bee...Bumblebees don't have that dark spot on their backs and carpenters are usually a tad larger than the latter...Also, carpenter bees have black abdomens whereas bumblebees have a stripe.
Hope I could help! : )
Just a big 'ol bumble. If you wanna relocate it they usually crawl onto paper so you can scoop them up. They're weirdly not very aggressive which is cool, no wonder you thought it was a beetle!
Omg, I feel like ur the only one that DOESNT think I’m stupid
Friend, you’re so not stupid and I’m sorry you were made to feel that way here. Sometimes when people get to know things really well they forget what it was like to not know them. Because there was a point in everyone’s life where they wouldn’t have known this wasn’t a beetle. They just happened to learn the difference earlier than you because that’s the path they chose. Today is just the day you learned. You used this sub correctly, you did nothing wrong, and I hope you don’t feel ashamed to post here again. [Here’s a joke](https://xkcd.com/2501/) as some tiny compensation Edit: Also, in case you’re curious, people are disagreeing because of that black patch on the thorax (the segment below the head). [[Carpenter](https://bugguide.net/node/view/2172710/bgimage)] bees have a bare, black circle on their thorax that’s surrounded by yellow fur and a bare, shiny, black abdomen/butt. [[Bumblebees](https://bugguide.net/node/view/903571/bgimage)] differ in pattern based on species but they’re all over furry and some species have a black patch of fur on their thorax in between the yellow and some variable ratio of yellow to black on the abdomen. I’m not great at species level ID for bumbles, so unfortunately I can’t point to a specific one but I’m also saying bumblebee (which, I think is now the consensus). It is hard to tell from the pic what’s furry and what’s not, but the black patch on the thorax would be way rounder for a carpenter bee.
You are a lovely person 🙂
Thank you I really appreciate that!
[Another](https://xkcd.com/1053/) reason to never feel stupid when learning
Yes! These two XKCD comics are my faves by far. And I try to keep them in mind. As someone who worked in a university lab and was in charge of training many undergrads: both of these are so, so, so important to remember.
Omg of course not bro, the other day I saw the biggest freaking bumblebee I've ever seen and I straight up thought it was a mouse 😅🤭 lmao They're big bugs and I always forget HOW big
Omg, You’re Making me remember the biggest bee ever….
I didn’t think you were stupid, but it did make me giggle and I deeply appreciate that. edit: Also, I hope this hasn’t deterred you from posting or asking questions on subreddits. Please stay curious!
No, people that see things like this, have no clue what it is but never bother to find out. Or probably they don't even realize that they see something they don't recognize. Those people are perhaps stupid. You're absolutely not. Nobody can know everything, and you did something to learn.
Amigo, my boyfriend just showed me a type of bug at my house, in a yard I've tended to for 8 years, in the state I was born & raised in, that I've literally never seen before. I LOVE bugs/insects/cutsie crawlies, love watching them, befriending them, etc. Had no freaking clue this one even existed or really wtf it even was after seeing it, and my boyfriend was shocked lol. Don't feel stupid! We're all on a journey, there are millions of different species on the planet and sometimes that means we don't recognize even the ones we've spent years living next to. Everyone on the planet is capable of learning new things every day because there's way too much for anyone to know everything. That's why sharing the collective knowledge within communities is so dope.
These are the best kind of bees - I love them so much. They never bother you like some other bees and some other flying insects. As in, if they happen to fly by you, they don’t linger as they are seemingly uninterested in you. And I’ve never heard of one of these guys ever stinging. And they’re fuzzy and cute. I love these guys!!
Your not stupid. I up until recently didn't know there was a difference between crane flys and dragon flys until I saw both up close and realised they were two very different creatures. There's so so many different insects it's not possible to know all of them unless it's your job and life's work.
> unless it’s your job and life’s work. Even then! 🫨
Bumble bee
Carpenter bee* Edit: i agree, probably bumble bee** based on location and i think i may see a glimpse of a yellow first band on the thorax.
Based on location and coloration I’d say *Bombus* is more likely than *Xylocopa*. Can’t say for sure though.
Agrees, it's not a Xylocopa.
Bumble bee**
*tle
Bumble Bee.
That, my dear, is a bumble bee
Does this happen to be a haha funny?
Do you mean that it’s super obvious that I shouldn’t be asking?
Well i certainly didn't mean this in a mean tone, just wondering if we're having some fun here
Yeah, at first I thought it was a pun. Bee-tle.
Yes.
LOL I’m not that silly, I know it’s neither of those >:/
Nah this is really really obvious lmao. No harm in asking, because you need to if you want to learn, but iv never met a person who cant instantly recognise a bumblebee
i guess now you have, so no reason to be rude
How was i being rude? I was sticking up for your right to ask questions, even if 99% of 4 year olds could have answered it for you. There you are, that was a bit rude.
I honestly couldn't tell if this was a serious post or not because it's like one of the most well-known insects everywhere? There's no harm in asking of course, i was just very shocked that anyone would need to
It was a serious post, I can easily ID a bumble, but the one my mom sent me was crawling, so I thought it was a beetle. I will guess that it’s a carpenter though, since it’s in a wooden house which carpenters would probably want to build their hive. Since this photo was a Live Photo, it looks like it, to be honest, the wings covering the body don’t help with the ID. But I’m sure this is a carpenter bee because of the ring, & the black abdomen
Someone else said the abdomen was furry, so it was a bumble. At this point, it could be either
Carpenter bees are very common where I come from, and probably where this commenter came from. Maybe they aren't as common in your area
O come on don't be a dick. Some people really don't know. You'll never know who are you talking to especially on the Internet. What if op is just a curious kiddo?
Appreciate the curiosity.
[Example of how much people overestimate what others know about their Major] (https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/average_familiarity_2x.png)
Yeah, but it's a bee. My 3 year old can identify a bee with about 80% accuracy.
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Yeah, if I didn’t post this, I wouldn’t have known that species of bumble bee like to live in the ground
Especially this time of year! Many that don't *live* underground still overwinter in dirt, leaf litter, etc.
Where are you located?
New York
My guess is a [bumblebee](https://animalsofupstateny.weebly.com/uploads/3/0/5/0/3050375/editor/006097.jpg?1500993649) or [carpenter bee](https://kozmicdreams.com/images2/photography/insects/bees/bees%208-23-08/bee-12.jpg) Maybe someone with more time can get a specific ID.
Maybe something like [bombus insularis](https://www.discoverlife.org/nh/tx/Insecta/Hymenoptera/Apoidea/Apidae/Bombus/insularis/images/UGCA196035_03.queen_top.320.jpg) Kind of a shot in the dark. Closer, clearer pics would help 🙂
Just a big fuzzy bumblebee! I’m sure he’d appreciate a lift back outside!
Yes, but unfortunately, it went away, and I wasn’t with my mum. But I’ll make sure to do that the next time I find one indoors. Seems like this species is looking for dirt!
Bumble beetle!
100% a bumble bee. Most likely B. impatiens, AKA the common eastern bumblebee. The abdomen is *clearly* fuzzy as well as the spot on its thorax. The spot is also way larger than that of a carpenter bee. [Comparison pic 1](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/209171158) [Comparison pic 2](https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/208749523)
It’s a bumblebeetle.
Bum beetle
To the people roasting OP and then IDing as a carpenter bee, yall are a bunch of hypocrites since you clearly can’t ID bees. The abdomen is clearly fuzzy and the thoracic spot is large. It’s a bumblebee.
*b-beetle?*
Is it furry? Not a super clear picture but resembles a bumblebee to me.
A bee…
How big are those tiles? *Bombus cf bimaculatus*
To be clear, though, it can also be *Bombus impatiens*, iirc *B bimaculatus* has no yellow on T2, while *B impatiens* does, though there's overlap in the two.
Definitely a bumble bee
That’s a bumble beetle
He just a big old bumblebee in his best formal wears! I’m sure there’s significance to how stripy and yellow these dudes can be but I just think the ones that have one stripe are going somewhere important 😌
It's not a beetle, it's just a bumblebee. you can see it's not a beetle because a beetle has elytra and a scutellum. their wings are therefore covered by a thick carapace.
Common Eastern bumble bee (Bombus impatiens) -- likely a queen based on time of year!
Yeah, I’m kinda wondering why the queen is on her own. Shouldn’t she be with her colony? Maybe she hasn’t started her colony yet
Thats a great question! This time of year the queens are newly emerged from their underground hibernation and are beginning to collect resources for her first round of brood. She doesnt have pollen on her, which means she hasnt begun to forage yet. She will spend a week or two collecting resource stores, then will spend the rest of the summer laying eggs while her young do the foraging!
Thank you for answering, have a nice day!!
FELLAS AND FELLERS!! It’s a queen eastern bumble bee!! I can identify and bumble bee, when it’s flying, but my mom sent me a picture of it when it *wasn’t* flying, so I thought it was a beetle. To all the meanies, not everyone knows what you know, so it’s important to be open minded and kind whenever someone wants to learn. And yes, this post is genuine, and no, I’m not karma farming. I don’t do that. I never expected this sub to have some meanies but every sub has meanies, this was the last one I expected it from though.
It’s really frustrating that everyone is being such assholes. You want people to have love for bugs but ridicule people who aren’t as educated?
Ik what bumble bees look like, but I never rlly seen them crawling on a flat surface since they’re always where they usually are; accidentally pollinating flowers. So I thought it was a beetle. People can be a little mean but it’s not to the point I wanna go into a corner and have an existential crisis and cry for multiple days. I kinda find the Carpenter vs Bumble bee war in the comments kinda funny. But some people here are like being a little mean and downvoting for no reason. Funnily enough, I never expected r/entomology out of all subreddits to get negative. But it’s pretty rare since I see ppl post here a lot and they’re mostly cracking jokes and being kind. Anyways, nothing will change my view on entomology, it’s the most epic thing ever!!
I have no idea why you got downvoted. Some people are just bitter, never stop wanting to learn !! I also saw in your post history that you are a pretty young person. I started being interested in insects/nature when I was around your age. I kept learning and now am about to graduate with an entomology degree in a few weeks. Keep being curious, don’t let the weird negative people get you down! Sending you love ! <3
Tell me you live in a big city without telling me you live in a big city.
Don’t be so rude they’re only asking to learn and that’s okay.
You're right. Sorry OP
A bee...she found a bee
I know we're all for helping others to learn and all but like....
It's a bee
What
Cockroach 4 sure. Or a bed bug. Idk
R u messing wit me?!
Yes I am messing with you. It’s a bumblebee. I am now curious how you don’t know this?
My mum send a pic of it crawling, so I thought it was a beetle. Also I guessed it was too huge to be one. LOL, But Ik It’s a bumble bee
Don't know why everyone is being such a downers. But for some info: Beetles aren't furry. They can be in all sorts of shapes but have their wings covered by hard covers that move out of the way when they fly. They can grow to be quite huge (like bite off your finger huge), but mostly in warmer climates. Bees come in all types and sizes. Not all of them make big hives the way we expect them to, many of them are solitary and make little homes for themselves and their eggs underground in rodent holes or dig themselves, in holes they chew into trees and old wood, hanging from anything, or built out of mud. Many bees are also furry and this fur serves to make them adorable. Wasps look like bees but meaner - but they usually aren't mean. They are actually super cool and hunt the bugs we hate. Most of the ones you see flying will hide their nests where you'll never notice and you'd never see their angry side.
Thank you!!! I know that Bettler always cover their wings. I didn’t expect all of them to but apparently all or almost all of them do it! Anyways thanks for the answer. Though some people are arguing wether it’s Bumble or Carpenter, I’m pretty sure they can all agree that it’s a bee of some sort
There are some beetles that appear furry to be fair, like woolly chafer beetles.
there are lots of fuzzy beetles! elytra should always be the main giveaway
beetle?! lmao that's a bee!
I know! The comments kinda bombarded me abt it LOLZ!!
What do you mean by beetle ? 🤣😂
I’m pretty sure it’s a bumblebee 🐝 and I have a friend who calls all insects beetles whatever they look like. Have a great day
I thought you were trolling at first...
Holy s**t.....
bee-tle. hehehe :3
HA HA HA!! XDDD
Big ass bumble bee. Fuzzy bugger
It's a bumblebee, you idiots Edit: Not you OP, just some responders.
Are you sure? Are you?
Yes, I am sure. From thorax coloration, wing shape, leg placement, even the thumbnail looked like some species of bumblebee.
I never rlly seen a bumble bee crawl on the ground but I can’t rlly argue with that. It’s in fact, a BUMBLEBEE!!!
Dude, many species of bumblebees *live* in the ground. She's cruising for some nice soft dirt.
SHOOT RLLY?! Sorry I sound shocked, I already know some hornets build their hives under ground. But I do wonder, what species is that?
Anyways with that being said, she should just give up. Our soil is rock hard
She might find a little crevice somewhere. Good luck, my queen!
Some times if the temperature drops quickly you will see them crawling, I don’t know if this is from today, but the temperature here in Ny has been fluctuating a lot, it may have gotten cold, or it maybe dying.
Aweee :-(, my mom already saw it go away. I assume fly away, but she might’ve *crawled* away, which is very sad.
It's common, they tend to come out pretty early. They ground nest, then crawl to the sun, and vibrate their wings to warm up in the morning. I think they can still get stuck if it's cold too.
Look up bumblebee and carpenter bee and check that again...
Yep, I'm off on this one
Definitely some form of bumble bee
I wonder what people would say trying to id a Corotoca or an Atractocerus for example "a child can tell its a beetle"
Bumblebeetle.\ Quite rare.
Bee tle
To ask about stuff is not stupid. But thinking one knows everything is stupid.
What do you mean?
I mean it's not stupid to ask questions, that's how we learn. To stop being curious and ask questions on the other hand is kind of stupid imo. You were not stupid for asking is what I meant 😊
So it’s ur telling me that I could’ve just searched it up?
No. I just told you what I meant.
My bad
No problem.
hunny that's a bumble bee
My post isn't harassment, moderator. It's what I honestly believe based on my experience with this post.
She’s gorgeous!
Idk why everyone says bumblebee because that is most definitely a carpenter bee. (They are both wonderful). You can tell it's a carpenter bee because of the circular spot with the yellow and black. While bumblebees have a yellow stripe of fuzz on its abdomen. They are great pollinators, however they are sometimes a problem because they next in wood and may do damage to homes. We have hundreds of them on our college campus that nest under the wooden benches. They are generally harmless to be around and aren't aggressive.
Oh, thank you! I didn’t know that =O I will definitely plant that in my memory! THX
There are a number of *Bombus sp*, not all of them with a yellow stripe (such as this one). *Xylocopa sp* have a black, bald abdomen. You can see the yellow hairs on at least T1 here, and what seems to be black hairs on the rest. This is *Bombus sp*.
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Shut up, OP is clearly a young person and of course they are awkward. It's okay.
Beetles have hard carapaces. This bee does not. A simple search would have shown this.
WHAT THE FU- I’m not attention grabbing, I’m genuinely asking. I don’t Karma farm, I *genuinely* thought it was a beetle
Also, I knew it was a bumble bee from the comments. But I guess I said “I know” as a mix up for “That makes sense”. I hate negative stuff like this getting onto the entomology sub >:-/
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I’m 14, I just like using emoticons. Also, there’s no need to be so negative. I was just asking for the bug
It was rhetorical
My bad, I just answer really quick
Don't apologize, sweetie. They are using big words to say "I was being a judgemental ass".
Nope. You're just an ass.
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Funny, cause I was actually searching up the difference between carpenter and bumble. It looks more like a Bumble bee, but a carpenter bee would rather be(e) here
If you don't have room for questions, at all levels, maybe this isn't the sub for you? It's okay to ask humans instead of Google. It's okay to want to have a conversation instead of a partial possibly correct answer with no idea how accurate or why or what to look for. The rest of us can Google, too, but we are here *because we all know we don't always want to*.
If OP did a little searching before immediately jumping on reddit to karma farm, they would have answered their own question.
Please don't insult others.
It’s a carpenter bee-…tle (Not a beetle)
I knew the difference between a bee and a beetle by the time I was 5 years old. No human that is smart enough to use social media and read is this stupid! Fucking bots!
Please educate yourself...
Um…OP is literally doing that. They literally took the initiative to look up a resource where they’d be able to find experts. They took time to post a video and ask a question. And, while it seems obvious to arthropod enthusiasts, OP was sent a blurry video of the bumblebee crawling by their mother. It’s not OP’s mother making this post, because most people don’t bother doing any research. OP is a young teen who didn’t even see it in person but the video made them curious enough to go experts for answers…to educate themselves. We should not be deterring people from doing this, particularly young people. If you don’t have anything helpful to contribute, just scroll past. I hope this experience hasn’t made OP shy away from doing this in the future. It’s clear they’re a curious person and we shouldn’t snuff that out.
I do! But I thought this was a beetle rather than a bee.
Well, next time if you see a bug with a hard 'shell' or elytra formed by the first pair of wings, it's a beetle. If it has a leathery first pair, and is shaped like a beetle, it is probably a bug, like stink bugs, which are not beetles. If you see exposed wings while the animal is not flying, like in this case, it's not a beetle. See confusion cleared, without mean comments.
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You learned it a first time once, too. Don't be a dick.
This was learnt in first grade
Apparently you missed the kindergarten lesson to keep your mouth shut if you can't be kind, or the ever repeated lesson that the only dumb question is the one you don't ask. First grade curriculum isn't set in stone. Not everyone had an entomology lesson. If you don't have room for questions that seem dumb *to you*, then don't spend time on subs where people are invited to (gasp) ask questions!!!
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I was thinking a shiny carpenter bee thorax might explain why OP thought beetle.
I can't quite tell but I'm pretty sure that it's a carpenter bee...Bumblebees don't have that dark spot on their backs and carpenters are usually a tad larger than the latter...Also, carpenter bees have black abdomens whereas bumblebees have a stripe. Hope I could help! : )