What's up everyone welcome back today. We are doing a little breakdown of bees and pollinators

So bees as we all know are exceptionally important in the garden and they are disappearing at an alarming rate because of colony collapse disorder.

But are those the only types of bees?

Certainly not.

And so I'm going to do a quick little rundown of some of the different types of bees that we know.

So here we go.

Honey bees.

They are the most common one we think of when we think of the word bee.

So they were first introduced to North America, actually from Europe.

Most of the time they're being used in commercial settings for beeswax and honey production

and these are the peaceful gentle bees. They are not very aggressive. Next we have

Bumble Bees so these are the large fuzzy bees that you'll see in your garden

buzzing around these are the only social bees as in not solitary that are

native to our or at least my continent which would be North America.

Next we have Carpenter Bees.

So these are less social.

They get their name because they actually can chew through wood,

which is a skill that a lot of bees do not have. So there are larger and

smaller species of these and both of those can carry pollen. Next you have a weirdly

named one, the sweat bees. There are two different varieties of these one is black and brown and one is sort of a metallic shiny green color.

These are solitary bees and they are actually attracted to the sweat on your body because it has a lot of salt content, hence the name.

Next, Digger bees. So these are hairy bees. They usually nest in the ground. And these bees are, again, mostly solitary bees.

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