Science knows of 21,000 bee species, There are likely thousands more
Published on: March 2, 2026, 11:36 a.m. | Source: Daily Excelsior
WOLLONGONG, Mar 2: 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 provide the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this work […]
