Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!dbell From: dbell@cup.portal.com (David J Bell) Newsgroups: sci.bio Subject: Re: Strange Bee-Like Creatures - What Are They? Message-ID: <24802@cup.portal.com> Date: 8 Dec 89 04:42:13 GMT References: <8216@ttidca.TTI.COM> Distribution: usa Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 10 They are...... (the envelope, please) Bees. Borer bees, actually, not the communal honeybee variety. They make the most precise, clean 1 cm entrance holes you could imagine. I don't know if they sting; judging from the size and resemblance to "bumblebees", I wouldn't want to find out the hard way! Dave dbell@cup.portal.com