Black swallowtail

JH jhimmel at connix.com
Tue May 1 23:09:31 EDT 2001


I have also noticed an unusual amount of carpenter bees out in my area.  It came to my attention because I rarely get them at all in my yard - but they're all over this year (it would be the year I built the deck!)  Keep an eye out for a Large Bee-fly (Bombylius major) explosion next year!  You've probably already been seeing them nectaring at flowers.  They are those squat, fuzzy yellow two-winged (diptera), long proboscis-wielding insects hovering all over the place.  They parasitize the larvae of solitary bees (like the Carpenter Bees).  

It's getting close to Luna time - I've already gotten a couple of Lunate Zales (flying wood chips)!

John
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    -----Original Message-----
    From: bill and Dale <droberts03 at snet.net>
    To: rrmuller at snet.net <rrmuller at snet.net>
    Cc: Lenny Brown <epmanshell at aol.com>; CTLEPS <CTLEPS-L at lists.yale.edu>
    Date: Tuesday, May 01, 2001 9:39 PM
    Subject: Re: Black swallowtail
    
    
    I too have noticed large numbers of carpenter bees here in Guilford, many,many more than in any of the 17 years I've lived here. Reading the VA-MD-DE BUGS listserve they have experienced a similar population bulge this year. 
                                                                     Bill Y 
    robert wrote: 

        Just had a male Black Swallowtail in the yard, NICE to see. I would use my own prefered name of Yellow Spotted Swallowtail but no one wouldknow what I was refering to. Has anyone else noticed the great number of Carpenter bees flying around this year orare they only in my yard. Bob Muller 
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