While managed bee colonies are monitored and their numbers recorded, wild bee populations are…

While managed bee colonies are monitored and their numbers recorded, wild bee populations are increasingly difficult to locate in nature. We still lack a comprehensive understanding of how many survive in Europe. Although honeybees are commonly seen, with hundreds of thousands of managed colonies in the Czech Republic, nearly 2,000 species of wild bees exist in Europe, 80% of which are solitary. Scientists are particularly concerned about declining populations of wild honeybees, which differ from managed ones as they receive no human care.