Bee Species in Harris County & Galveston County
Bee species identified in Harris and Galveston County, with species determination from Dr. John Ascher, Dr. Jack Neff, BugGuide, and iNaturalist, with special recognition to Lauren Simpson and Michael Eckenfels, and from observations and photos by numerous citizen scientists like you. Help monitor bee populations, upload your photos to iNaturalist or BugGuide (free), where your observation will be useful for land managers, farmers, and researchers.
Bee Species in Harris County & Galveston County
| Common Name | Family | Genus | Species | Subspecies | Other Info |
| Cresson’s Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Andrena | creeonii | ||
| Crawford’s Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Andrena | crawfordi | ||
| Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Andrena | sitiliae | ||
| Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Andrena | macra | ||
| Black Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Andrena | nigrae | ||
| Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Andrena | mariae | ||
| Texas Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Mesoxaea | texana | ||
| Confluent Mining Bee | Andrenidae | Panurginus | polytrichus | Shaggy Bee | |
| Tickseed Fairy Bee | Andrenidae | Perdita | coreopsidis | obscurior | |
| Fairy Bee | Andrenidae | Perdita | shinnersi | ||
| Fairy Bee | Andrenidae | Perdita | foveata | foveata | |
| Fairy Bee | Andrenidae | Perdita | sternalis | ||
| Glorious Protoxaea Bee | Andrenidae | Protoxaea | gloriosa | Oxaeinae Bee | |
| Abrupt Digger Bee | Apidae | Anthophora | abrupta | ||
| Urbane Digger Bee | Apidae | Anthophora | urbana | ||
| Eastern Bumblebee | Apidae | Bombus | impatiens | ||
| American Bumblebee | Apidae | Bombus | pensylvanicus | ||
| Black-Footed Oil Digger Bee | Apidae | Centris | atripes | ||
| Discolored Oil Digger Bee | Apidae | Centris | decolorata | ||
| Cobalt Small Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Ceratina | cobaltina | ||
| Cockerel’s Small Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Ceratina | cockerelli | ||
| Apidae | Diadasia | ||||
| Cellophane Cuckoo Bee | Apidae | Epeolus | pusillus | ||
| Sumac Cellophane Cuckoo Bee | Apidae | Epeolus | lectoides | ||
| Blueberry Digger Bee | Apidae | Habropoda | laboriosa | ||
| Two-Spotted Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | bimaculatus | bimaculatus | |
| Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | boltoniae | ||
| Common Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | communis | ||
| Brown-winged Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | comptoides | ||
| Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | coreopsis | ||
| Tooth-bellied Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | dentiventris | ||
| Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | tepanecus | ||
| Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Melissodes | tristis | ||
| Margined Turret Bee | Apidae | Melitoma | marginella | ||
| Nomad Cuckoo Bee | Apidae | Nomada | |||
| Pruinose Squash Bee | Apidae | Peponapis | pruinosa | ||
| Hibiscus Turret Bee | Apidae | Ptilothrix | bombiformis | ||
| Sandhills Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Svastra | aegis | ||
| Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Svastra | atripes | atripes | |
| Oblique Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Svastra | obliqua | ||
| Broad-Banded Longhorn Bee | Apidae | Svastra | petulca | petulca | |
| Concave Longhorn Cuckoo Bee | Apidae | Triepeolus | concavus | ||
| Lunate Longhorn Cuckoo Bee | Apidae | Triepeolus | lunatus | ||
| Mexican Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | mexicanorum | ||
| Parkinson’s Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | tabaniformis | parkinsoniae | |
| Southern Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | micans | ||
| Michener’s Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | micheneri | ||
| Strand’s Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | strandi | ||
| Eastern Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | virginica | virginica | |
| Texas Carpenter Bee | Apidae | Xylocopa | virginica | texana | |
| Texas Cellophane Bee | Colletidae | Colletes | texanus | texanus | |
| Rufous-Backed Cellophane Bee | Colletidae | Colletes | thoracicus | ||
| Masked Bee | Colletidae | Hylaeus | episcopalis | coquilletti | |
| Modest Masked Bee | Colletidae | Hylaeus | modestus | modestus | |
| Brown-winged Striped Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Agapostemon | splendens | ||
| Texas Striped Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Agapostemon | texanus | ||
| Bicolored striped Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Agapostemon | virescens | ||
| Metallic Epauletted Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Augochloropsis | metallica | ||
| Pure Green Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Augochloropsis | pura | ||
| Sunflower Nomia | Halictidae | Dieunomia | heteropoda | ||
| Ligated Furrow Bee | Halictidae | Halictus | ligatus | ||
| Poey’s Furrow Bee | Halictidae | Halictus | poeyi | ||
| Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | coactum | ||
| Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | connexum | ||
| Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | disparile | ||
| Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | imitatum | ||
| Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | tegulare | ||
| Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | fedorense | ||
| Two-Celled Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | lustrans | ||
| Texas Metallic Sweat Bee | Halictidae | Lasioglossum | texanum | ||
| Norton’s Nomia Bee | Halictidae | Nomia | nortoni | nortoni | |
| Blood Bees | Halictidae | Sphecodes | |||
| Northern Rotund Resin Bee | Megachilidae | Anthidiellum | notatum | ||
| Black-winged Sharptail Cuckoo Bee | Megachilidae | Coelioxys | dolichos | ||
| Mexican Cuckoo Bee | Megachilidae | Coelioxys | mexicanus | ||
| Eight-Toothed Cuckoo Bee | Megachilidae | Coelioxys | octodentatus | ||
| Curved Pebble Bee | Megachilidae | Dianthidium | curvatum | ||
| Small Mason Bee | Megachilidae | Hoplitis | simplex | ||
| White-footed Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | albitarsis | ||
| Parallel Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | parallela | ||
| Slender Resin Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | exilis | ||
| Short Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | brevis | brevis | |
| Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | lippiae | ||
| Flat-tailed Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | mendica | ||
| Carpenter-mimic Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | xylocopoides | ||
| Hostile Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | inimica | inimica | |
| Thumbed Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | policaris | ||
| Hoary Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | pruina | ||
| Alfalfa Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | rotundata | ||
| Sculptured Resin Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | sculpturalis | ||
| Leafcutter Bee | Megachilidae | Megachile | sidalceae | ||
| Steel-blue Mason Bee | Megachilidae | Osmia | chalybea | ||
| Currant Mason Bee | Megachilidae | Osmia | ribifloris | ||
