Confusing furrow bee
The confusing furrow bee is a tiny bee with a shiny greenish head and chest. It is easy to mix up with other bees, which is how it got its name. The bees live together in nests in the ground, with a queen and her daughters.
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Fun facts
Its nest entrance is a little tunnel under a mound, and guard bees stand at the door.
Sneaky flies try to follow returning workers into the nest to lay their eggs there.
In Britain the only sure way to tell it from a look-alike bee is to look very closely at the males with a microscope.
The mated young queens sleep through the winter and start new nests in spring.
Most asked questions about Confusing furrow bee
?Why is it called the confusing furrow bee?
Because it looks so much like other small furrow bees that even experts get confused.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Halictus confusus
- Named by
- Smith, 1853
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
- Also known as
- Southern bronze furrow bee, Confused sweat bee
Where the facts come from
- Halictus confusus (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 Insects Unlocked from USA. CC0, Wikimedia Commons. The sticker of this bug is drawn from this picture.
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