Just because it has a stinger and flies does NOT make it a BEE (from June 2006)

I have a pet peeve. Sure I have more than just one but this is something that bugs me. Bugs…Ha! Anyhow, where I live in Utah, any flying insect that has some semblance of a stinger is referred to as a bee. You know, bees. They dive bomb flowers, collect pollen, vomit honey. You know the story. As a service to my entomologcally-challenged Utahns , I post the following images to help you identify bees and other flying stinging *things* correctly. Roll the old mouse pointer (that’s the thingamabob that looks like an arrow on the screen most of the time) over the image to see what it is. (Hey, it’s for the children!)