Top Results for Halictidae

Agapostemon virescens, commonly known as the bicolored striped-sweat bee, is a species of ground-nesting bee native to North America. It is frequently observed in urban and suburban environments where it forages for nectar and pollen. The species exhibits notable sexual dimorphism; females possess a...

The orange-legged furrow bee, Halictus rubicundus, is a ground-nesting sweat bee in the family Halictidae with a broad Holarctic distribution across Europe, Asia, and North America. Females excavate nests in soil and provision brood cells with pollen and nectar. The species is notable for facultativ...

Dialictus zephyrus is a small North American sweat bee in the family Halictidae, also classified under the name Lasioglossum zephyrum. It nests in the ground and can form colonies in which a reproductive female is assisted by other females, making it a frequently studied example of primitive eusocia...

Lasioglossum morio is a species of sweat bee in the family Halictidae, widely distributed across Europe. It is a small bee with a metallic green or bronze coloration. Like many Lasioglossum species, it nests in the ground, often in aggregations where multiple females share a nesting area. The specie...

Halictus tumulorum is a species of sweat bee found throughout Europe and parts of Asia. It belongs to the family Halictidae and is known for its primitively eusocial behavior, where a founding queen is joined by worker daughters who help maintain the colony. The species nests in the ground, often in...

Lasioglossum pauxillum is a small ground-nesting sweat bee found across Europe and North Africa. Belonging to the family Halictidae, the species is known for its primitively eusocial colony structure, where a single queen initiates a nest in the spring before raising workers to assist in foraging an...

Lasioglossum nitidulum is a sweat bee species native to Europe, extensively researched for its polymorphic social behaviors and caste formation.

Augochlorella gratiosa is a small sweat bee species belonging to the family Halictidae, widely distributed across North America as a generalist pollinator.

First described by Frederick Smith in 1848, Lasioglossum zonulum is a species of sweat bee within the family Halictidae. It is native to the Palearctic region and is known for its communal nesting behavior, often building shared nests in exposed soil banks. Unlike highly social bees, these insects l...

Lasioglossum fulvicorne is a species of sweat bee belonging to the family Halictidae, widely distributed across the Palearctic region including Europe and parts of Asia. These small-to-medium-sized bees are characterized by their reddish-brown hair (fulvicorne means 'red-haired' in Latin) and ground...

Dufourea halictula is a solitary mining bee in the sweat-bee family Halictidae. It has a patchy distribution across continental Europe, where it is associated with sandy heath and other open, sandy habitats, and it has also been recorded in Britain. Its pollen foraging is specialized around plants s...

Nomioides minutissimus is a very small solitary bee in the sweat-bee family Halictidae. It is recorded from parts of Europe and the wider Palearctic, and its compact body may show the metallic green or bluish coloration seen in the genus Nomioides. Like many halictid bees, it nests in the ground, wh...

Sphecodes gibbus is a cleptoparasitic bee in the family Halictidae and the type species of the genus Sphecodes. It is widely associated with the Palearctic region and is often called a blood bee because females commonly have a reddish abdomen. Rather than provisioning its own nest, the female enters...

Lipotriches flavoviridis is an Old World sweat bee belonging to the family Halictidae, commonly observed foraging on various tropical flora.

Sphecodes monilicornis is a species of blood bee in the family Halictidae. It is a solitary-bee cleptoparasite, meaning that a female uses the nest of another bee instead of collecting pollen to provision a nest of her own. The species is associated with European and Asian bee fauna and is recognize...

Sphecodes ephippius is a Palearctic species of cuckoo bee in the family Halictidae. Females enter the provisioned nests of other solitary ground-nesting bees, remove or kill the host's egg or larva, and lay their own egg in its place. The developing Sphecodes larva consumes the pollen and nectar pro...

Sphecodes pellucidus is a Palearctic species of cuckoo bee in the family Halictidae, also known as a blood bee. It is cleptoparasitic: the female enters the nest of another solitary bee, lays an egg in a provisioned cell, and leaves the host's pollen stores for her larva rather than collecting polle...

Sphecodes hyalinatus is a Palearctic cuckoo bee in the sweat-bee family Halictidae. Like other members of Sphecodes, it is cleptoparasitic: females do not gather pollen to provision their own young, but use the nests and food stores prepared by host bees. Records place the species mainly in Europe,...