If you ask most people what they know about bees, you’re likely to get answers ranging from their favorite type of honey to stories about their worst stinging experiences.
As it turns out, not all bees produce honey, have stingers, or even live in hives — the vast majority of the some 20,000 species of bees worldwide are solitary creatures, typically living in small burrows in the soil or in twigs of plants.
In a recent Proceedings from the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) study, scientists from Harvard University, University of Melbourne, Tel Aviv University, and...
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