Pure green sweat bee
The pure green sweat bee is a small bee that shines bright metallic green all over, like a little jewel. It makes its home in old rotting logs in the woods. It is called a sweat bee because it sometimes lands on people to lick the salty sweat from their skin.
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Fun facts
In Florida the same bee is not green but deep metallic blue.
It builds its nest inside fallen trees, starting from holes that other insects made.
The mother coats each baby room with a waxy layer she makes herself.
The boys go back to the same sleeping spot every night, and sometimes sleep in a row all facing the same way.
Only the girls survive the winter. They snuggle together under rotting logs until spring.
Most asked questions about Pure green sweat bee
?Why do sweat bees land on you?
They lick the sweat on your skin because they want the salt in it.
?How big is the pure green sweat bee?
It is about 8 millimetres long, smaller than a honeybee.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Augochlora pura
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Augochlora pura (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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