National Wildlife Federation – There are more honey bees on the planet today than at any time in history but North America’s native bees, on the other hand, are in trouble.
Unlike honey bees, more than 90 percent of our nearly 4,000 native bee species live not with other bees in hives but alone in nests carved into soil, wood or hollow plant stems. For all bees, foraging on flowers is a hard life and they need finely tuned senses, spatial awareness, learning and memory.
