Heather N. Holm

It contains excellent information on identifying wild bees (and domestic honeybees, too) - including text, diagrams, and photos (all live bees and similar species are grouped together for easy comparison) and calls out key ID characteristics such as how they hold their wings when resting. With a hand lens I've made some IDs that I think are spot on. For each species there is foraging, nesting, mating and life cycle information, too. There's also a large section on plants you can have in your yard to support these important little girls. Oh and I had no idea that most of the non-hive/colony bees don't have stingers.… (mais)