Golden sweat bee
The golden sweat bee is a tiny bee that shines like metal. It is usually golden green, but it can also be blue or coppery pink. Sweat bees like the salt in people's sweat, so sometimes they land on your skin for a lick.
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Fun facts
It nests in little tunnels in the ground.
In spring one mother starts a nest alone. Her first daughters become workers and help her raise more babies.
A nest has about 14 or 15 young bees in a year.
It helps farmers by pollinating tomatoes, strawberries and other plants.
Most asked questions about Golden sweat bee
?Why is it called a sweat bee?
Because sweat bees like the salt in human sweat and sometimes land on people to drink it.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Augochlorella aurata
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America
- Also known as
- Golden green sweat bee
Where the facts come from
- Augochlorella aurata (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 Jomegat. CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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