Where the Wild Bees Are
San Diego is a biodiversity hotspot for bees. Researchers need help documenting them. The post Where the Wild Bees Are appeared first on Nautilus.
by Kristen French
Sep 21, 2023
3 minutes
San Diego is home to 700 bee species. That’s a lot. Researchers Jess Davids, a biologist at University of California, San Diego, and James Hung, assistant professor of biology at the University of Oklahoma, have been documenting the bees who live in the county to help conservationists better protect them—and draw the interest of local citizen scientists.
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