Did you know, and I'm not going to get the exact figures right, our guest probably has

those memorized, I certainly don't, that very few B species that exist actually produce

honey, and many of them, I think there's thousands, Hillary correct me if I'm wrong, actually

don't, and they just sort of exist as bees in the environment, and I learned this a long

time ago, I don't, like I said, Hillary, you will correct me, but that was a mind-blowing

fact for me at the time, we have Hillary Kerney back on the show, Founder Girl Next Door

Honey, author of Queen Spotting and the Little Book of Bees, am I on base there, Hillary?

Yeah, there's 20,000, we think species of bees, which is quite a lot, and that's more

species of bees than if you combine all the birds and mammals, so like more bees than

all the types of birds and mammals, I thought it was like, I don't know why, but I thought

it was like 5,000, 4,000 in the US, 400 in San Diego County, what? 400 unique species

and just in our county. Yes, we're actually one of the most, like the richest, most diverse

places for bees. I think we also are for birds, right? I don't know. I heard something

about like we're a great birding country, county apparently. Well, if you think about

the county, like we have so many like zones, you know, we have the coastal, we have the

mountains, you know, we have desert. Yeah, I mean, I guess it helps when your county

is like a huge chunk of land, it's kind of cheating. Yeah. So, yeah, no, it's great.

I mean, let's, let's talk then about these native bees. What does someone need to know

about, I guess, integrating them into a garden or a landscape? Yeah, so going back to

what you were saying about whether or not they make honey. So, honey bees are like one

of three types of social bees that we have. So, out of those 20,000 species, honey bees

live in a colony and have a queen and make honey, then there's bumble bees, which also

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