Family
Halictidae (Sweat bees)
Halictus ligatus. Photo: (c) Jeremy Collison, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)
The Halictidae is the second largest family of Apoidea bees. Halictid species occur all over the world and are usually dark-colored and often metallic in appearance. Several species are all or partly green and a few are red; a number of them have yellow markings, especially the males, which commonly possess yellow faces, a pattern widespread among the various families of bees.
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