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Sweat Bees

Sweat bee is the name given to a large variety of bees belonging to the same family. These bees are attracted to your sweat and hence the name sweat bees. During the day you can typically encounter them swarming over flowers and carrying yellow pollen back to their nests. Learn more about Sweat Bees on our website.

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Green Sweat Bees

Green sweat bees may be different than any bee you've seen before. What do you think of when you hear a bee? Yellow and black stripes, flowers and honey, or a yellow bear with a red t-shirt? I'm going to guess sweat and metallic green don't come to mind. Let's learn about the green sweat bee today. Learn more about Green Sweat Bees on the learn about nature website.

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a fly sitting on top of a leaf with the words sweat bees everything you need to know

Click the pin to read our huge, detailed guide explaining everything you'll ever need to know about sweat bees, including their visual appearance, common traits, and behavioral patterns.

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a bee sitting on top of a yellow flower with its head inside of it's body

This female Sweat Bee is using her mandibles to strip pollen out of a Sourgrass anther and then with her legs she pushes the pollen down to her abdomen. Sweat Bees in Sourgrass Deconstruction Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (almost 3x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen…

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a close up view of a bee on a yellow flower with its head in the center

This female Sweat Bee is using her mandibles to strip pollen out of a Sourgrass anther. I shot a video on how I take these photos youtu.be/iQtUIiNCSzs Sweat Bees in Sourgrass Deconstruction Tech Specs: Canon 80D (F11, 1/250, ISO 100) + a Canon MP-E 65mm macro lens (around 2.5x) + a diffused MT-26EX-RT with a Kaiser adjustable flash shoe on the "A" head (the key), E-TTL metering, -1/3 FEC, second curtain sync). This is a single, uncropped, frame taken hand held. In post I used Topaz Sharpen…

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a yellow fire hydrant hanging from a tree

Sweat bees are one of summer's annoying nuisances (along with mosquitos). Here's how to get rid of sweat bees but also why you may not want to kill them.

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a bee sitting on top of a yellow flower with its head inside of it's center

https://flic.kr/p/2j21wcb | Sweat Bee in a Sourgrass Flower V | There wasn't enough wind so this Sweat Bee felt me grab onto the stem of the Sourgrass Flower that it was foraging in and climbed to the top of it to investigate. But when it did it was facing away from me. So I carefully turned the flower so that the critter was facing the camera. Gotta be gentle, cause I didn't want to spook the bee into taking off and I didn't want to damage the flower. I managed to get the shot and leave the…

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two bees sitting on top of each other in the palm of someone's hand

Some of the common names of the small bee-like flies shown in Figure 1 include corn fly, hover fly, helicopter fly, flower fly, and sweat bee. Each name fits some aspect of the insect’s appearance,…

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a bee sitting on top of a yellow flower with it's eyes wide open

There wasn't enough wind so this Sweat Bee felt me grab onto the stem of the Sourgrass Flower that it was foraging in and climbed to the top of it to investigate. But when it did it was facing away from me. So I carefully turned the flower so that the critter was facing the camera. Gotta be gentle, cause I didn't want to spook the bee into taking off and I didn't want to damage the flower. I managed to get the shot and leave the Sourgrass unharmed. Sweat Bees in Sourgrass Deconstruction Tech…

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A tiny sweat bee from the subgenus Ctenonomia showing its proboscis. Ctenonomia is a subgenus of Lasioglossum or commonly known as sweat bees. Some of the sweat bees are known to be cleptoparasites. Kleptoparasitism is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another. Sweat bees are famous for their attraction to perspiration, which provides them precious moisture and salts.

A tiny sweat bee from the subgenus Ctenonomia showing its proboscis. Ctenonomia is a subgenus of Lasioglossum or commonly known as sweat bees. Some of the sweat bees are known to be cleptoparasites. Kleptoparasitism is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another. Sweat bees are famous for their attraction to perspiration, which provides them precious moisture and salts.

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