The one thousand bee species in France, are divided into six families* depending on tongue length, nesting habits, or flower preference.
However certain families are so diverse that some members have little in common with other bees in the same family.
Please join this guided tour of the universe of wild european bees.
* Michener 2007: The bees of the the World ; 992 pages, Johns Hopkins Univ. Press. Baltimore, M
Links:
[1] http://lib.arthropologia.org