Did you know not all bees live in hives or create honey? In fact, most species of bees native to the US are of the solitary variety. This week, Meghan Barrett tells us about a few of those species and what makes them so unique.
Suggested Reading:
The Bees in your Backyard by Wilson and Carril: http://beesinyourbackyard.blogspot.com/p/poster.html (Poster and Book); highly recommend this book, inexpensive with BEAUTIFUL pictures and tons of fun information about the bees around us
Bee lab: https://www.beelab.umn.edu/bees/bee-diversity
Article on bee intelligence: https://phys.org/news/2013-10-bee-brains-view-larger-superior.html
Lay-person-friendly summary of Meghan's first published paper: http://meghan-barrett.com/blog/2017/10/01/caste-differences-in-wasp-brains/
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Follow Meghan Barrett: meghan-barrett.com, @Bee_Bytes (Twitter)
Thanks to www.bensound.com/ for the intro/outro
Thanks to @TylerDamme for audio editing
