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Index of Subjects I don't think I'd call a honey bee "small slim". The workers are just one size. Someone who is truly familiar with honey bees would not confuse any other bee, wasp, hoverfly with a honey bee. Google "hoverfly photo". Honey bees forage 5-8 km so considering hobby beekeepers, even in metro, there are "tame" honey bees almost everywhere that people live in NS. The vast majority of honey bees seen in NS are "tame". This is not so further south. I have seen 2 "bee trees" in my life with feral honey bees. One was in Annapolis Royal & one was in the wilds of Hants Co. at least 5 km from the nearest remote habitation. Rick Whitman On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 10:14 PM, Peter Payzant <pce@accesswave.ca> wrote: > Some friends and I were talking about bees seen in the garden. There is a > small slim bee which we all felt looked like a honeybee (definitely not a > bumblebee), but on reflection we wondered if honeybees only lived in > domesticated colonies. Most of us have these "honeybees" in our gardens, but > we don't know of any hives nearby. So, we were wondering if they might be > domesticated honeybees which have set up housekeeping in the wild, or more > probably, are they some related wild species. > > Anybody care to take a stab at this? > > Peter Payzant > Waverley
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