I thought bumblebees were this humungous monstrous bee critters that looks sooooooooooooo ungainly.. how on earth can they fly?? I don't have any pictures of the ones that come by my place.. don't see them that often. But they're about 2-2.5" long, at least an inch thick and fly slowly.

They are I've seen two sizes here of bumble bees not sure if there's 2 kinds here or if the smaller ones are the young ones and not fully grown yet.

Some black bees round and fat that I thought was bumble bees turned out to be carpenter bees. They bore holes in your wood. Destructive buggers too.

nyah, this article shows a pic of what I see as a bumble bee *as* a bumble bee. Never seen a carpenter bee. But I have these glossy black wasp-looking things.. I don't think they're wasps because their wings are different even though they have a wasp-like body. I never mess with them if I can avoid it.. they look evil.

http://doyourownpestcontrol.co...

Yep that would be the carpenter bees but I thought they ALL were bumble bees. I have the bumble bees too.

Here is a picture of honey bees on the National Geographic site

http://animals.nationalgeograp...

Hope this helps