Invertebrates > Bees & Wasps
The Western Bumblebee (Bombus occidentalis) is an iconic, fuzzy native pollinator historically ubiquitous throughout the western wilderness of North America. Renowned for its distinctive, snowy-white tail and industrious buzz-pollination behavior, this cold-adapted...
Invertebrates > Bees & Wasps
The Northern Paper Wasp (Polistes fuscatus) is an extraordinary, highly social insect celebrated in behavioral science for possessing human-like facial recognition capabilities. Famous for constructing open, umbrella-shaped paper nests suspended beneath eaves and...
Invertebrates > Bees & Wasps
The Western Honey Bee (Apis mellifera), also known as the European honey bee, is the most economically vital, ecologically significant, and intensively studied social insect on planet Earth, belonging to the family Apidae. Indigenous natively across Europe, Africa,...
