What bees look like honey bees?

What bees look like honey bees?

Depending on the region you find them, honey bees differ in color. Most commonly, you will see a honey bee that has black stripes alternating with bands of amber to brown hairs. Still, some honey bees can look almost all black. Honey bees measure around one-half to three-fourths of an inch.

Are honey bees and bumblebees the same thing?

Although the various bumblebee and honeybee species both belong to the Apidae family, bumblebees belong to the Bombus genus and honeybees to Apis. Their appearance is different, as well. Bumblebees are round and fuzzy; honeybees are smaller and thinner – it would be easy, in fact, to mistake them for wasps.

What are these little bees?

Sweat bees (Halictus) are ground nesting bees that generally use vertical tunnels with side passages leading to egg chambers to rear their young. These shallow nesting sites are often accidentally destroyed by gardeners who are unaware of the presence of these native bees in their yards and gardens.