Since we're talking about bees, can someone identify a bee for me? They were hanging around our horses a few weeks ago and they made the horses very nervous. As it flew, the back end of the bee drooped toward the ground and the stinger was huge and sort of went straight upward and outward from the bee's abdomen. The stinger was HUGE -- easily visible to our eyes. The bees, themselves, tended to move pretty slowly and so were easy to eliminate if necessary.
I'm in central Indiana. We were wondering if this is one of those killer bee/crosses that we occasionally hear about. No one had quite seen anything like it before. It made one draft horse who got stung jump about 20 feet straight into the air.
Thx.