Orange-legged furrow bee
The orange-legged furrow bee is a small brown bee with thin white stripes on its body and rusty orange legs. It digs its nest in the ground, often on a sunny slope. Some of these bees live alone and some live in little families.
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Fun facts
It lives in more places than almost any other bee in the world.
In cold places each mother lives alone, but in warm places they live in families with workers.
Its relatives are called sweat bees, because they like to lick sweat.
Each egg is laid on its own little ball of pollen in a tiny room underground.
Its nest can go down 12 centimetres into the soil.
Most asked questions about Orange-legged furrow bee
?Where does the orange-legged furrow bee nest?
In burrows it digs in sandy or soft soil, often on slopes facing the sun.
?How big is the orange-legged furrow bee?
The females are about 1 centimetre long, and the males are slimmer.
For bug experts
- Scientific name
- Halictus rubicundus
- Group
- Bees and bumblebees
- Family
- Halictidae
- Classification
- Insecta > Hymenoptera > Halictidae
- Lives on
- Europe, Asia, North America
Where the facts come from
- Halictus rubicundus (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 linsepatron. CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons. The round sticker of this bug is cut from the same picture.
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