I think you may be spreading a misconception about bees feeding on pollen. My understanding was they were after the nectar, getting covered in pollen was incidental (and a result of plants' reproduction strategies)?
good video. when i try looking this question up on google, i just get the difference between honeybees and yellowjackets. which is a very different question lol.
Good point! "The European hornet (Vespa crabro) is the largest eusocial wasp native to Europe. It is also the only true hornet (genus Vespa) found in North America, having been introduced to the United States and Canada from Europe as early as 1840." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_hornet
I don’t sell it directly, it was published through Princeton University press but most online bookstores sell it including Amazon so that probably be the best place to start
Bees Are The Best! www.amazon.com/dp/0578665646/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_WYGRGCJ69DEYCVBGEWQE The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America's Bees www.amazon.com/dp/0691160775/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_M59M7CJHF7D1HNCE2XQZ
6:54 actually you do have native Hornets Palaeovespa florissantia, Paleovespa gillettei, Paleovespa wilsoni, Paleovespa relecta and Paleovespa scudderi all native to Florissant Formation in Colorado, United States during the Eocene epoch (Priabonian age)
Bacteria are everywhere so I guess yes they will probably leave some bacteria behind, but I am not aware of any disease spread from wasps to humans so there is probably nothing to worry about
Bees i understand 🐝 But these hornets and wasps are difficult to understand, what they look like mostly. In spring-summer, we get a lot of bees/wasps/hornets in our garden/on house also. Honey bees, red ?wasps/hornets. Also i see some solitary very big thick buzzy black ?wasp ?hornet, don't know what it is, always looking for higher tall flowers. It makes loud scary buzzy sound. Last year during autumn, around 90% of our apples from one tree were eaten by ?hornets ?wasps (red ones)
@@TheBeesInYourBackyard "Both wasps and bumblebees have undergone a reduction of both mandibles and maxillae and a massive development of labial glossae, forming a kind of tongue for drinking liquid food; however, they can still chew. Finally, bees have mandibles not for feeding, but for other purposes (such as fighting, grooming theirselves or working wax scales into honeycomb), and both maxillae and labial glossae lengthen giving room to a hairy tongue with an internal duct (the salivary duct), so their diet is exclusively liquid-based." allyouneedisbiology.wordpress.com/tag/bee-mouthparts/
@@robertcheatle2685 Thanks for the link and the info. I was thinking more superficially. Like if I showed you a bee mandible and a wasp mandible, they look pretty similar.
Is there any difference in flight pattern? Just moved to a house and there is a black and yellow bug that flys around the overhang above my door, that runs along the house. Not sure if it’s a bee or a wasp? If it’s a wasp, could they build a nest inside the overhang?
I think I saw a couple of wasps in my garden and I'm wondering if I should kill them...there are a lot of caterpillars, which I don´t mind, but my small nieces come home often and I worry they'll sting them (sorry for any mistakes, english isn't my first language).
I would not kill wasps in the garden, if you find a nest too close to your garden you might want to remove it, but single wasps foraging in the garden will not do much harm.
hornets are actually quite big as far as social wasps go. Even the smaller species such as the yellow-legged hornet can reach 2cm as workers, and the largest species, the asian giant hornet, can reach 5cm as queens and 4 as workers. They can hover (not great at it though), but they aren’t particularly fast compared to other wasps.
I think it is the yellow jacket paper wasp I am getting every year on corners of my vinyl siding, under eaves, ugh!!!! They are hard to tell between a yellow jacket "bee" and the yellow jacket wasps. I believe I got stung on the back yesterday trying to spray that area, so I could clean my kitchen window. It came after me on the driveway and got me in the back. It felt like it may have stung a couple/few times. I don't kill honeybees, I do kill wasps!
I often wonder why Americans tend to talk so fast; do they get paid for the number of words per minute - or do they think faster is better? To me it sounds more like they're doing a commercial then giving information. Or is it the American society that encourages people to talk this way? 🤔
Hahah Good question I often talk fast when I am excited about a topic but it still begs the question, what about American society makes me talk fast (when excited)
@@TheBeesInYourBackyard Well, your guess is as good as mine. Your video is informative, but for those of us who do not have English as our native language, it would make us feel less stressed (if you know what I mean). ;)
Yes I have the same thinking as yours , and it do make me get upset because I would like to undetstand the subject he tried to tell us but I have to stop the video and rewind many times.
Speaking from experience of being a fast Scottish speaker (so I've been told! Try listening to It sometime!😁) I rewind this because he says some really interesting things that I like to take time to take in and understand. So much wonderful information!
