It’s a question that has sparked the curiosity of scholars and bee lovers for decades: how many species of bees are there in the world?
This might, at first, seem like a silly question. But it is a topic of genuine importance – especially if we want to protect our pollinators.
Now, in a new paper published in Nature Communications, we provide the first statistically derived estimate of bee species richness around the world. But this work isn’t just about bees. It provides the tools needed for scientists to estimate the number of all species on Earth.
