Shining oil-digger bee
Centris nitida
The shining oil-digger bee is a wild bee from Central America. Oil-digger bees are known for collecting oil from certain flowers, not just nectar and pollen. This one has also moved to Florida in the United States.
Lives in
Central America, and now also Florida
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar and collects pollen and flower oils to feed its young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Shining oil-digger 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
It has been brought to Florida, and now it lives there too.
2
Scientists split it into two kinds, called subspecies.
3
It belongs to a group of bees that can collect oil from flowers.
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Most asked questions about Shining oil-digger bee
?Where does the shining oil-digger bee live?
In Central America, and it has also been brought to Florida.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Centris nitida
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Apidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Apidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Centris nitida (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 Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab from Beltsville, Maryland, USA. Public domain, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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