While there are many different genera, or types, of cuckoo bees, all the new discoveries relate to one genus, Epeolus. The new findings bring to 43 the total of Epeolus species in North America.

Grozinger noted that this highlights the interconnectedness of these different species, and the importance of thinking about bees as communities, not as individual species. The researchers said that ...

There are thousands of bee species, both little and large Scientists have mapped the distribution of all 20,000 bee species on earth. The new global map of bees ... and North America, are well ...

Garden bees are extremely important pollinators of both native plants and commercial crops. Their flower visits insure ...

Field of Bees: Busy Bee introduces players to the amazing diversity of pollinators. There are thousands of bee species in North America alone ... as is to explore the wildflower field, rolling ...