Heinrich states that about 20,000 species of bees exist in the world. They vary in size from two millimeters to insects as large as six centimeters. Bees can be divided into three main groups—social bees, solitary bees, and parasitic bees. (205)

Solitary, as their name says, are introverted and makeup the majority of bee population. Although they live alone sometimes they build their nests together in a small area resembling a hive. There are no worker bees among them so each female is like a queen and does her own work. (205) According to Winston the three main kinds of solitary bees are leafcutter, mining, and carpenter. The female leafcutter bee searches for a convenient, ready-made space in such places as a hollow stem, rotten wood, or the ground. There she shapes her nest in the form of a long tunnel. She constructs a cell, using circles she cuts from the leaves of shrubs such as roses or

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