Category: Habropoda

• Blueberry digger bee (Habropoda laboriosa)

  Apidae > Habropoda > Habropoda laboriosa The blueberry digger bee (Habropoda laboriosa) is a common and economically-significant visitor to blueberry throughout the southeast. While its primary natural habitat of pine barrens is threatened by development and fire suppression, H. laboriosa appears to be flexible in its habitat preferences and frequently occurs in suburban and semi-urban…

  Bee Watching

  January 10, 2023

  Habropoda, Specialists, Species Page, Spring Bees

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• Habropoda

  Habropoda are chunky, speedy bees, represented in our region by a single species. Habropoda laboriosa is a robust spring bee that looks much like a bumble bee, but females gather pollen in scopal brushes rather than corbiculae and males have big cream-colored spots on their faces. Species covered: Species requiring accounts: none

  Bee Watching

  January 9, 2023

  Genus page, Habropoda