Silky striped sweat bee
Agapostemon sericeus
The silky striped sweat bee is a small wild bee from North America. It does not live in a big hive. Each female makes her own little nest in the ground.
Lives in
North America, in lawns, gardens and unmown meadows
What does it eat?
It drinks nectar from flowers and collects pollen for its young.
How fast is it?
A kid running fast about 13 km/h (8.1 mph)
Silky striped 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
It is a solitary bee, which means each female works alone instead of in a big family.
2
It is not fussy about where it nests. Even a damp lawn next to a garden will do, as long as there are flowers nearby.
3
It belongs to the sweat bees, a big family of small bees.
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Most asked questions about Silky striped sweat bee
?Where does the silky striped sweat bee nest?
In the ground, for example in lawns and unmown areas near flowers.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Agapostemon sericeus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- North America
Where the facts come from
- Agapostemon sericeus (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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