Southeastern Blueberry Bee Habropoda laboriosa (Fabricius, 1804)    Synonyms: Blueberry Digger.
Kingdom Animalia   >   Phylum Arthropoda   >   Class Insecta   >   Order Hymenoptera   >   Family Apidae   >   Genus Habropoda   

Status:

"Associated with blueberries in sandy soils" (Scarpulla, 2012).

Description:

Nests are categorized as ground burrows, and social behavior is categorized as solitary to communal (Selfridge et al., 2017).

There are 62 records in the project database.

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Habropoda labriosa in Washington Co., Maryland (4/21/2013). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Habropoda labriosa in Washington Co., Maryland (4/21/2013). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Habropoda laboriosa, Queen Anne's Co., Maryland (3/2012). Photo by USGS PWRC. (MBP list)

Southeastern Blueberry Bee in Prince George's Co., Maryland (4/19/2020). (c) spyingnaturalist, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by spyingnaturalist via iNaturalist. (MBP list)

Southeastern Blueberry Bee in Worcester Co., Maryland (4/17/2021). (c) Jim Brighton, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Jim Brighton. (MBP list)

Southeastern Blueberry Bee in Worcester Co., Maryland (4/3/2023). (c) Zachary Dankowicz, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC). Photo by Zachary Dankowicz via iNaturalist. (MBP list)


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