#halictidae
#InsectThursday Pretty in metallic green sweat bees (halictidae)on the dahlias in my garden from last June!💚

Happy Thursday!
Bee happy!🐝
#insects #pollinators
#mygarden #savethebees #sweatbees #halictidae #flowers #gardeningfeed
February 6, 2025 at 3:15 PM
July 10, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Los retos de ser abeja silvestre son grandes. Esta hembra de Lasioglossum immunitum (Halictidae) recogiendo polen en una flor de la invasora Arctotheca calendula (Asteraceae), se enreda en una telaraña mientras su dueña se asoma a calibrar la presa. Al final pudo escapar 💃💪🐝
@ebdonana.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I heart Halictidae
Affirmative, both clustered and hoary. #nativeplants
June 24, 2026 at 11:52 PM
#julibloeiers #elkedageeninsect #macro #photography

Groefbij (Halictidae?) op Oranje havikskruid (Hieracium aurantiacum)
July 22, 2026 at 1:02 AM
Sweat bee (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) females keep busy excavating nests in the ground, provisioning the nests with prey for their young, and feeding on flower nectar and pollen. They're important pollinators of a variety of crops. Palmyra Michigan, 30 May 2021.
March 10, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Sweat bee (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) females keep busy excavating nests in the ground, provisioning the nests with prey for their young, and feeding on flower nectar and pollen. They're important pollinators of a variety of crops. Palmyra Michigan, 30 May 2021.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Sweat bee in rabbitbrush.

#macrophotography #sweatbee #halictidae
October 10, 2024 at 2:31 AM
Green sweat bee (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Augochlorini) taking a break. Females keep busy excavating nests in the ground, provisioning the nests with prey for their young, and feeding on flower nectar and pollen. They're important pollinators of a variety of crops. Palmyra Michigan, 30 May 2021.
February 28, 2025 at 2:12 PM
The bee Ceylalictus variegatus (Halictidae) and the hoverfly Paragus quadrifasciatus (Syrphidae), two tiny floral visitors that can be seen these days on flowers of Cakile maritima (Brassicaceae) in seaside sand dunes of SW Iberia. Perhaps yet another example of mimic hoverfly.
July 4, 2026 at 10:17 PM
The bees are back 💛

Family Halictidae - Sweat Bees but I think they’re sweet bees
March 14, 2026 at 12:33 PM
I 💛💚Spring

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#NativeBees
March 22, 2024 at 8:24 PM
September 23, 2026 at 12:31 AM
Tiene pinta de Sphecodes sp (Halictidae)
June 20, 2025 at 6:42 AM
Halictinae: Hymenoptera > Apoidea > Halictidae. Ground-nesters, primitively eusocial with seasonal castes. Pollinate Asteraceae/Fabaceae, basal in phylogeny (COI/28S data). Key models for insect social evolution.🐝🔬 #BeeScience science🧪
January 2, 2026 at 12:56 AM
Arthropod Photo of the Week: April 1, 2026
Sweat bee
Halictus ligatus
Hymenoptera: Halictidae
Observed in North Carolina, USA
By Rey Acevedo (kingacedp.picfair.com), North Carolina, USA
#arthropodPOTW
April 1, 2026 at 7:05 PM
Systropha planidens es una abeja solitaria de la familia Halictidae, especializada en flores de la familia Convulaceae, como esta Convolvulus althaeoides. Nidifica en suelos arenosos excavando galerías. Los machos son fáciles de identificar por esas antenas en espiral. 🐝🌸🐝
@ebdonana.bsky.social
September 10, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Buenos días! Ánimo con el calor amigas y amigos.
Os dejamos con la familia Halictidae, que en la península cuenta con más de 200 especies y 11 géneros entre los que destaca Lasioglossum con mas de 100 especies. Gracias a @nermonper.bsky.social por las magníficas ilustraciones.
@ebdonana.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 8:50 AM
Welcome new followers, here is a very cute and shiny sweat bee 🐝
October 17, 2024 at 1:44 PM
Narcissus papyraceus (Amaryllidaceae) is not a flower easy for a female of Lasioglossum malachurum (Halictidae) to collect pollen from because of the corolla morphology, but it is still working.
Matasgordas (P.N.Doñana)
25/03/25
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@abejassilvestres.bsky.social
April 11, 2025 at 10:46 AM
Sweat bee, possibly Augochlora pura, checking out a rotting log in my yard. 🌿 #insects #bees #halictidae
April 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Tem estudo que abelhas nativas carregam 8x + pólen de açaí do que outros polinizadores! As principais são a arapuá (Trigona branneri Cockerell)
E as abelhas solitárias como as da família Halictidae
Seu Edgar só conseguiu produzir açaí e cupuaçu depois que implementou caixas de Jataí na propriedade!
Olha o mel de açaí no PA q coisa chique!
Óh, é de Apis mesmo.
Qual seriam as nativas q fazem essa polinização?
Fiquei curiosa pra provar esse mel, hein!?!
Que massa essa análise das % dos pólens . Sabia q era assim não!
March 2, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Una hembra de Lasioglossum malachurum (Halictidae), cubierta de polen, visita las flores de Armeria gaditana (Plumbaginaceae). Estas abejas, de comportamiento eusocial, forman pequeñas colonias donde las hembras fundadoras construyen y defienden el nido.
Matasgordas (Doñana)
@ebdonana.bsky.social
July 4, 2025 at 5:10 PM
#ElkeDagEenInsect #Insect
De #gewone_geurgroefbij #Lasioglossum_calceatum is een kleine wilde bij uit de familie Halictidae. Ze nestelt in de grond en leeft solitair of primitief sociaal. Deze soort verzamelt nectar en stuifmeel en is een belangrijke bestuiver in tuinen en natuur.
April 3, 2026 at 5:51 AM
Identificación rápida: Si en campo observas una abejilla girando lateralmente sobre una flor, con cara triangular (tipo “alien”) y una línea transversal en el ápice del abdomen o "rima", probablemente se trate de un Lasioglossum sp (Halictidae), género con 105 especies.
@ebdonana.bsky.social
August 7, 2025 at 11:10 AM