Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and they’re both cooler and ecologically more ...

and extreme degree of sociality and accompanying behaviors are not traits of the typical bee. Most native bees — besides bumblebees — live solitary lifestyles in holes in trees and loose soil, without ...

They provide stability for every terrestrial ecosystem in the world, because wild flowering plants depend on these native bees, flies, butterflies, beetles, moths, bats, birds and other animals to ...