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Sadly, she had\u00a0 nasty yellow jackets (http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yellow_jacket)<\/a><\/p>\n For those of you who think you might have a swarm of bees, here are a few clues (in this particular instance):<\/strong><\/p>\n \u2022 The yellow jacket nest looks a bit like like gray paper (see detail photo below) \u2022 Yellow jackets are (mostly) shiny and the yellow is VERY yellow – their abdomens look kind of like armor. \u2022 Honey bees are fuzzy all over and more of an orange\/tan color \u2022 Honey bees are a lot “nicer” (yes, I am biased) in that they are not really interested in stinging you – if they sting you they will die – they will only sting if they feel you are threatening the entire hive.<\/p>\n My friend Juli thought she might have a swarm of honey bees in a lobster buoy on her front porch (this is, after all, Maine). So, I\u00a0 went over to look at lunchtime, as the prospect of a swarm to plop in a nuc (nucleus hive) was appealing (free-bees). Sadly, she had\u00a0 nasty yellow jackets … Continue reading “Is that a honey bee in a buoy?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[17,147,18,30,29],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-beekeeping","tag-bee","tag-beekeeping","tag-bees","tag-wasp","tag-yellow-jacket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":227,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions\/227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nvs. a honey bee hive, where they would build\u00a0 hexagonal comb
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Honey_comb.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:European_wasp_white_bg.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n
\nhttp:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/File:Drinking_Bee.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n![\"detail:](\"http:\/\/d-n-i.com\/tidbits\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/yellow-jacket-4.jpg\" "\\"detail:")