Wandering Centris

Centris errans · Order: Hymenoptera · Family: Apidae

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Wandering Centris
Photo: USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), Public domain

Centris errans occurs in the Caribbean and across North America. In the United States it is found in the southernmost part of Florida.

Source: Wikipedia

How to recognize it

Centris errans is recorded from the Caribbean and North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it lives

The species occurs in the southernmost portion of Florida.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it comes from

Its native range includes the Caribbean and North America.

Source: Wikipedia

Where it is found in the US

Recorded in 1 of 51 states and DC. Most records: Florida.

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

Source: GBIF

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

Months it is reported in the US

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Source: GBIF

More photos

Wandering Centris photo 2
Photo: USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), Public domain
Wandering Centris photo 3
Photo: USGS Native Bee Inventory and Monitoring Laboratory, no known copyright restrictions (public domain), Public domain
Wandering Centris photo 4
Photo: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, CC BY
Wandering Centris photo 5
Photo: USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab, 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/Centris_errans

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

Text written 2026-10-28 from the sources above and checked sentence by sentence against them. Data fetched 2026-10-28.

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