An introduction to the 4,000 kinds of bees in the U.S. and Canada

The colony losses of the honeybee have broadened a sense of our reliance on pollinators in general.. Most of us know the large, black and pesky carpenter bee that gnaws into our decks in May or the sweet bumblebee that seems oblivious to its own stem-bending heft. But what of the small iridescent green bead that is the euglossa bee, or the golden Svastra, stocky, woolly and like a miniature teddy bear with wings?

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