What is up everyone? What's buzz in and I say buzzin because today's episode is all

about sweat bees? Now what the heck are sweat bees? Is that a weird word for a bee

that's just tired from all of its work gathering pollen?

No, it is not.

Sweat bees are bees that are attracted to our sweat.

So they're tiny little bees, they're members of the

Halleck Today family, and they're also referred to as ground bees or ground

dwelling bees. They are not honey producers in the same way as the APis family of bees are, the classic honey bees, right?

However, they are still absolutely amazing pollinators.

So what would a sweat bee look like?

What are you actually looking for in the garden if you want to

identify a sweat bee so here's the here's the trick I mean with most of these these insects like you

might imagine there are 4,300 subspecies in the Halleck today family worldwide

but different regions are going to have different subspecies. They're actually more than a thousand

species of sweat bees in the United States alone.

And so with bees you've got the head of the bee, you've got the thorax, and you've got the

metasoma or the abdomen.

So the head is obvious, the thorax is the body, and the metasoma is the

bee's sort of booty. It's its rear end, right? Often these are going to be differently

colored and it's very difficult for me to describe the exact

sweat bee that's going to be in your particular region. So highly recommend going

to epic gardening.com forward slash sweat-dash bees and we've put quite a few varieties at least some of the more common ones up there on the

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