Pallid Habropoda

Habropoda pallida · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Apidae

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Pallid Habropoda
Photo: Trevor Van Loon, CC BY

Habropoda pallida lives in both Central America and North America. Females collect pollen from creosote bush (Larrea tridentata) to feed their young.

Source: Wikipedia

What it eats

Females provision their nests with pollen from creosote bush (Larrea tridentata).

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 4 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah.

Darker = more records. Counts are museum and citizen-science records, not population size.

Source: GBIF

Status: native in North America; native in United States. Source: iNaturalist

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Pallid Habropoda photo 3
Photo: Ashwin Srinivasan, CC BY
Pallid Habropoda photo 4
Photo: Steve Matson, CC BY
Pallid Habropoda photo 5
Photo: unknown, CC0
Pallid Habropoda photo 6
Photo: River Ahlquist, CC BY

Same family (Apidae)

Western Honey BeeWestern Honey BeeApis melliferaCan stingCommon Eastern Bumble BeeCommon Eastern Bumble BeeBombus impatiensCan stingEastern Carpenter BeeEastern Carpenter BeeXylocopa virginicaCan stingBrown-belted Bumble BeeBrown-belted Bumble BeeBombus griseocollisCommon Carder Bumble BeeCommon Carder Bumble BeeBombus pascuorumBuff-tailed Bumble BeeBuff-tailed Bumble BeeBombus terrestris

Sources

  • Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habropoda_pallida

Look it up elsewhere: GBIF · iNaturalist · BugGuide · ITIS · Wikipedia

Text written 2026-10-23 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-23.

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