Ligated furrow bee
The ligated furrow bee is a small black or brown-black bee with pale hairy bands on its tail end. It digs its nest in hard, bare ground. A queen bee and her daughters live and work together in the nest.
How fast is it?
Fun facts
It likes to dig nests in hard, flat dirt paths and roads, often with many nests close together.
The queens are big, while their daughter helpers are smaller.
In cold places only the young queens survive the winter, and each starts a new nest in spring.
Queens like to fix up old nests and use the same spot year after year.
In the far south of Florida the bees stay busy all year long.
Most asked questions about Ligated furrow bee
?Where does the ligated furrow bee nest?
In the ground, usually in hard, bare soil like dirt roads and paths.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Halictus ligatus
- Named by
- Say, 1837
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America, South America
- Also known as
- Sweat bee
Where the facts come from
- Halictus ligatus (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. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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