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Black carpenter bees?

Geo-TH,In

Geo-TH,In

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Today while loading woodchips, I was attached by black bees. They were very angry. I left tractor running and I was chased by bees for ever 200 feet. One got me on temple and gave me a little headache.

No idea where they came from. I'm going to wait for winter to finish moving chips.

Do you think their hive is close by?

Found pic on internet.
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I'm only guessing I was stung by anger black carpenter bee. What other bee is all black?
 
carpenter bees are more of a solitary bee, the males do not have stingers. the females do. generally the male bees hovers around the burrows where the femalelays eggs. they look a lot like a bumble bee. pretty big bee. its possible you have a colony of russian honey bees-nesting in that area. how big are the bees?
 
We have Bumble Bees and wood boring bees looking almost identical. Both have 3-4 yellow and black stripes down the back. The wood bees eat up your barn and are harmless to you, not to your barn. You probably already know the Bumble Bee traits.

The black dirt dobber (pictured) moved in here 10 or so years ago. Has the same traits as the regular dirt dobber but will sting. Both these suckers are an absolute nuisance to equipment and most anything around the plade has a hard mudlodge for the larvae.
 
Yes they do, but seldom sting unless provoked. One of my daughters, when younger, grasped the deck railing, not knowing that a carpenter bee was resting on the underside. It soon let her know that it was there! As I recall, it raised a pretty good welt on her hand.
 
No I think you'd know a hornet when you saw one (or were chased by one). Around east they're pretty big, sort of wasp-like in bolely, paper, - tree-hanging nests. Don't disturb those bad guys because they'll chase you down with a vengeance. We do harbor bumble bees because they're pretty docile and very good pollinators in our orchard.
 
Carpenter bee's are not all black at least not in my neck of the woods, and as some have said, only the female has a stinger, they rarely are seen in large groups, now bumble bees nest in the ground etc will chase you, and can sting. We cleaned out a barn and they had laid down plywood for hay to sit on, and bumble bees nested under the wood, they were very aggressive when we tried to remove the wood and would chase us several hundred feet.
 

Fro my experience the only time bees will chase you is when you have threatened their nest.
 
Carpenter bees around here have a little yellow on them. They never bother me, just go about their business chewing holes in fenceposts, outdoor furniture etc. But they do fight each for territory and are easily killed it seems by hornets who like to move to into their holes.
 
There are about 400 species of carpenter bees listed. Although they are solitary they sometimes share their nesting areas with sisters and can form a small colony. There generally won't be many so you probably did not have nearly the number you would find in a large wasp nest. They can use their stingers multiple times.

With such a large colony worker honey bees are expendable while solitary bees could not afford the loss so they evolved to reuse their stingers. I don't think any of the male bees have stingers.

Either way I don't like getting stung.
 
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