Zoa ID

[Laker32]

The seller calls these bumble bees, but they don't show p in any search as these?

 

[SloppyJ]

They are purple hornets. Maybe blue hornets. Either way, they are hornets.

 

[Ozzy]

They look like Purple Hornets or Purple Stingers. Maybe Blue Hornets as well.

 

[ontop27]

Don't think they have the alternating skirt that hornets do..

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[reid429]

Bumble bees are right. No alternating skirts

 

[Laker32]

Either way, this frag is costing me 25$. Not sure if they are blue,black or purple, but I will see today.

 

[andijo81]

Blue Steele? Either way, not bad for $25

 

[Laker32]

I picked these up today and they are purple. They dont have the alternating skirts. Nice rock though.

 

[joshporksandwich]

if the seller told you bumble bee i would say it is. Like someone stated hornets have alternating skirt. Very nice pick up for $25.

 

[Neptunes Cove]

Umm, the name Bumble-bee zoas was taken in 1996-97 for a zoa that has a yellow dot center/ black body/and yellow fringes
like this (35MM shot- before digital) (alien eye pattern thats yellow/ black yellow)

yellow/black/yellow+ bumble-bee, then the one with a black center /yellow ring was named YellowJackets zoas (way before the paly)
- yellowjacket were renamed by someone 3 years after it was already named in 2004 to LA Lakers zoas- but the OG name was YellowJackets
like these (from the 1st order of deepwater zoas in North America- 3 years earlier...)

-this is what spawned the Hornet name- because of the similar ring pattern/ but different
there was another one- before the hornets/ when we referred to the inner ring as a "Robot-Eye" pattern
like in C3PO zoas (copper robot eye)that have gold green ring and skirt- called Artificial Intelligence (shown below-pic 2001ish)
-to follow the "robot-eye" theme... but it looks different (thicker fringes)anyhow bumble-bee would be incorrect/ unless theyve been renamed after 15+ years
-terrible when someone wants to keep renaming things that have an established name
-its like renaming all the old Corvettes "Mickeys" because I saw a guy named Mickey that had one....what????-EXACTLY...

 

[bigboiireef]

Blue macaws