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To: huldah1776
hovered 4 inches from my hand...

Hovered as in like a hummingbird? If yes, indeed there *is* a honeybee that hovers similar to a hummingbird... called the "hummingbird bee". It's rather large at 2", but I've seen here in the northeast a regular-sized honeybee that hovers like a hummingbird.

14 posted on 03/29/2012 7:21:34 PM PDT by C210N (Mitt "Severe Etch-a-Sketch" Romney is the front-runner? Seriously??)
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To: C210N

The Hummingbird Bee is actually the Hummingbird Moth. Saw my first one the other day while it was feeding on our wild Indian Paintbrushes.


23 posted on 03/29/2012 10:28:27 PM PDT by X-spurt (Its time for ON YOUR FEET or on your knees)
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To: C210N

2” and I would have fallen off the roof! No, this was a tiny, tiny bee. Sometimes I see little flies that are luminescent and around 3/8 of an inch max and it was that size.


38 posted on 03/31/2012 8:20:10 AM PDT by huldah1776
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