today is dominated by flowering plants—and the pollinator world, by bees. There are some 20,000 species of bees globally, 4,000 in the United States. In the tiny state of Vermont, there are more than 300 species of wild bees—miners and masons, carpenters and bumblebees, sweat bees and cuckoos. Some form complex social groups, but many are solitary, living in hollowed out sticks and holes in the ground. And, yes, there’s also , the domestic honeybee,
