I'm lucky enough to live in an area where there are lots of bees. I don't know one type from the other, though, so I thought I'd start trying to learn just which types they are.

So here's one that was nectaring on the pentas in my garden. It had a bigger body than the ones I think of as "bumble bees" and an interesting black spot in the yellow area -

{{!gwi}}
Anybody know which type this is?

Sherry