I was attacked by these fucking meat bees once while mowing the lawn.
Can't say I am a fan.

There is not a band called Meat Bees?

Why is there not a band called Meat Bees?

Can no band be good enough to warrant the name?

Those two words together are riveting.

= Justin

We always called these yellow jackets.

Well, or worse, depending.

I thought "yellow jackets" were hornets not bees?

I've had experience with what were termed "sweat bees". They were just annoying and not hurtful.

I was playing golf with a friend a few years ago and he went off into some trees to find his ball. I heard a bloodcurdling cry and turned to see him sprinting out of the brush. I thought he had rousted a bear or something, but it was a cloud of yellowjackets. They had bitten his shaven head about six times. Nasty little fuckers.

During the summer, I often have large bees that burrow under my back porch. When I walk outside, they get all pissed off and buzz at me angrily. I tried many times to chase and kill these huge fuckers, but to no avail.
One day last summer I was using a gas weed trimmer and I heard one of these fuckers buzz by me so i turned and lifted the trimmer and in one motion chopped the fucker clean in half. I was my own hero for a week.

I just want to point out that while Aunt Linda was going nuts talking about meat bees, at least three different people said something like "You mean yellowjackets? Or wasps?" and she went nuts again and insisted that no, they weren't wasps or yellowjackets, they were meat bees.

Now that she's gone and googled them, she wants to pretend it's okay that yellowjackets and wasps are sometimes called meat bees. Like that's the same thing all of a sudden.

Seriously though, who calls them that? I mean other than Aunt Linda, who calls yellowjackets or wasps meat bees? I'm 45 years old and I had never heard it until Aunt Linda went nuts about them by the barbecue.

Meat bees. Ridiculous.

Ridiculous, yes. But I agree with Justin, that "meat bees" does have some kind of ring to it.

What about Wood Beez?