#3649 · 🐝 bees, wasps & ants
Ligated Furrow Bee
Halictus ligatus
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what is it?
Halictus ligatus is a species of sweat bee from the family Halictidae, characterized by those bees that mine or burrow into the ground to create their nests. Moreover, As a member of the Halictidae, H. ligatus is commonly categorized a sweat bee due to its attraction to the salts of human perspiration. H. ligatus, like Lasioglossum zephyrum , is a primitively eusocial bee species, for which aggression is one of the most influential behavioral attitudes for establishing...
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 55,792 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Ligated Furrow Bee
- scientific name
- Halictus ligatus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Hymenoptera
- family
- Halictidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 55,792
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Halictidae
#3550 📷 10Great Banded Furrow Bee
🇳🇱 Breedbandgroefbij
Halictus scabiosae
👀 98 in NL
#3563 📷 10White-lipped Blood Bee
🇳🇱 Grote bloedbij
Sphecodes albilabris
👀 71 in NL
#3601 📷 10Ashy Furrow Bee
🇳🇱 Zesvlekkige groefbij
Lasioglossum sexnotatum
👀 35 in NL
#3656 📷 9Pure Green Sweat bee
Augochlora pura
🌍 31k seen
#3657 📷 10Bicolored Striped Sweat Bee
Agapostemon virescens
🌍 30.8k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 154298, Wikidata Q10764944, GBIF 1353451, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.