#sweat bee

The green bee is a striped sweat bee of the Agapostemon genus & the black bee is a leaf cutter bee within the Megachile genus!

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Striped Nomia sweat bee, Nomia strigata, Halictidae

Bicolored striped sweat bee (Agapostemon virescens). They're so pretty!

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Did you know that the Six-Banded Furrow Bee (Halictus sexcinctus) is a sweat bee found in much of Europe and into Turkey and Iraq? They have an incredibly diverse social system that originally led scientists to believe they were different species. These bees will forage from a wide array of flowers but tend to prefer wide open flowers. The worker bees can display a range of behaviours from total altruism to extreme selfishness. For now, it is unclear as to why these workers make such decisions.

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Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee (Agapostemon virescens), family Halictidae, Chicago, IL, USA