Northeastern sweat bee
Augochloropsis viridula
The northeastern sweat bee is a small bee that shines bright metallic green. It looks like a tiny flying jewel. It lives in the middle of the United States and in Canada.
Lives in
Midwestern United States and Canada
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen for its babies.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Northeastern 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
Its whole body shines a brilliant green.
2
Sweat bees got their name because some of them like to lick salty sweat from people's skin.
3
In 2022 scientists found that one bee they thought was a single kind was really five. This bee is one of the five.
4
It was first described by a British insect scientist, Frederick Smith, in 1853.
you asked
Most asked questions about Northeastern sweat bee
?Why is it called a sweat bee?
Some sweat bees like to lick salty sweat from people's skin.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Augochloropsis viridula
- Named by
- Smith, 1853
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Augochloropsis viridula (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 Frederick Smith. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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