Males are black and yellow-orange, while females are pale yellow. Females sew their hanging nests to the undersides of palm fronds.
Males are black and bright yellow-orange, while females are pale yellow. Male color is more orange in Texas and eastern Mexico.
In California, the female pokes holes in a palm frond and threads plant fibers through it to sew on a hanging nest.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.