Giant sweat bee
Dieunomia heteropoda
The giant sweat bee is a big member of the sweat bee family. It lives in North and Central America. Sweat bees got their funny name because some of them like to lick salty sweat from people's skin.
Lives in
North America and Central America
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen to feed its babies.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Giant sweat bee about 22 km/h (14 mph)
A grown-up on a bike about 25 km/h (16 mph)
A car driving in town about 50 km/h (31 mph)
cool stuff
Fun facts
1
Scientists split it into two kinds, called subspecies.
2
One of the two kinds was first described in 1824 and the other in 1865.
3
Like other bees, the females carry pollen home to feed their young.
you asked
Most asked questions about Giant sweat bee
?Why is it called a sweat bee?
Bees in its family are called sweat bees because some of them like to lick the salt from sweaty skin.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Dieunomia heteropoda
- Named by
- Say, 1824
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Dieunomia heteropoda (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0): what it looks like, where it lives, what it eats, sizes and fun facts, retold in simple words.
- Picture by USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory from Beltsville, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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