Fine striped sweat bee
The fine striped sweat bee is a small, shiny green bee from North America. The females are green all over, while the males have yellow stripes on their tails. It lives alone and digs its nest in the ground.
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Fun facts
Its colour can change with the weather. It looks more bluish when the air is dry and paler green when the air is damp.
It is not a picky eater. It collects pollen from lots of different plants.
For almost 90 years scientists thought it was the same as another bee. In 2024 it got its own name back.
The females are about 11 millimetres long, and the males are a little smaller.
Most asked questions about Fine striped sweat bee
?Where does the fine striped sweat bee live?
In the northern and central United States and along the west coast. It nests in little burrows in the ground.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agapostemon subtilior
- Named by
- Cockerell, 1898
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Agapostemon subtilior (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 BBTWellParkour. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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