The bees in your garden are probably not honeybees. They're leaf-cutter bees, mining bees, bumble bees or sweat bees, and many others. They don't make honey and they don't live in hives.

Dave Carmean photo Did you know that other than bumble bees, the rest of our native bees (400+ species) are solitary? Each female can reproduce and will build her own nest. The majority of solitary ...

Bees evolved from wasps 100 million years ago. Today there are more than 19,000 species. Their variety is fantastic. There are sweat bees, cuckoo bees, masked bees, broad-tongued Australians and ...