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solitary bees

A Dictionary of Ecology | 2004 | 255 words | Copyright

solitary bees The majority of bees, which are not social (i.e. there is no worker caste and the bees do not live in colonies). Each nest is the work of an individual female and, although nests may be aggregated, there is no co-operation among individuals.

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