Bee exhibit creates buzz at Museum of the Earth

Credit: Sam Droege/USGS Bee Inventory and Monitoring Lab

This panel shows some of the diversity found in wild bees. 

 

Honeybees are the most recognizable and popular of all bees, but they account for only seven of 20,000 total described species.

A museum exhibit – created in collaboration with Cornell experts, illustrators and students – seeks to shine a light on the vast diversity of wild bees through breathtaking photos, unusual specimens, video footage and extremely rare bee fossils from as many as 100 million years ago.