Halictus sexcinctus
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Halictus sexcinctus, commonly referred to as the six-banded furrow bee, is a species of sweat bee found throughout Europe and as far east as Asian Turkey and Iraq. The H. sexcinctus can be easily confused with the closely related species, Halictus scabiosae, due to very similar morphological features. H. sexcinctus show a social polymorphism in which different colonies can exhibit solitary, communal, or eusocial structure. Due to this large variance in social organization, it was suspected that it was not one species at all, but rather multiple, cryptic species. However, genetic analysis was able to confirm these varying populations as one species. H. sexcinctus will forage from multiple flower species, but prefers plant species with wide-open flowers. Their nests can be found dug into the ground in loamy or sandy soil.
Halictus sexcinctus is part of the family Halictidae, which are commonly referred to as the sweat bees. Species in the genus Halictus are the most recently evolved in the Halictid family, and H. sexcinctus falls into the most recently evolved clade of the family, which is a eusocial taxa. The family Halictidae has the most eusocial species... Wikipedia →
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| 1 | Warsaw | 🇵🇱 Poland |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Six-Banded Sweat Bee sighting in Warsaw on a given day, based on 21 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 208th most-seen of the 580 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
July
In that month about 20% of wildlife watchers report a Six-Banded Sweat Bee in Warsaw on a given day, against under 5% in June and August–April, the lowest months. That is one of Warsaw's wettest months, with about 75 mm of rain against 40 mm in February.
Between 11 am and 2 pm
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Six-Banded Sweat Bee sightings with a recorded time, and nearly all of them come between 6 am and 6 pm: it is a daytime animal.
Only Warsaw, in our data
Warsaw is the only city on Wallace's Line with enough records to rate Six-Banded Sweat Bee sightings: about 10% of wildlife watchers there report one on a given day.
Same genus: Halictus
The closest relatives of the Six-Banded Sweat Bee that you can see in Warsaw (genus Halictus, Furrow Bees) are Golden Furrow Bee (about 20%) and Orange-Legged Furrow Bee (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Six-Banded Sweat Bee is recorded against all the insects logged in Warsaw (21 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
