Common Green Furrow Bee vs Rush Veneer Moth

Side-by-side species comparison

Attribute Common Green Furrow Bee Rush Veneer Moth
Scientific Name Lasioglossum malachurum Nomophila noctuella
Order Hymenoptera Lepidoptera
Family Halictidae Crambidae
Size 7-9 mm 26-34 mm wingspan
Habitat Farmland Farmland
Diet Nectar Feeders Herbivores
Regions Europe, North Africa, Western Asia Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania
Conservation Least Concern Least Concern

Common Green Furrow Bee

A small, primitively eusocial sweat bee in which a single queen overwinters and founds a colony with successive worker broods. It has a bronzy-green head and thorax.

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Did You Know?

Colonies can have over 100 workers by late summer, making it one of the most social of all halictid bees.

Rush Veneer Moth

A migratory snout moth with warm brown forewings and pale hindwings. It is a strong flier that regularly migrates northward from the Mediterranean each year.

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Did You Know?

It is one of the most widely distributed moths in the world, found on every continent except Antarctica.