Science knows of 21,000 bee species. There are likely thousands more
- Written by James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
It’s a question that has sparked the curiosity of scholars and bee lovers for decades: how many species of bees are there in the world?
This might, at first, seem like a silly question. But it is a topic of genuine importance – especially if we want to protect our pollinators.
Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, we...





