Eusocial, colony survives the winter
32 records
Bees living this way. Around ninety per cent of bee species are solitary, and the social ones people picture when they think of bees are a small and unrepresentative minority.
Bees by social structure
Sociality in bees is a spectrum rather than a switch, and the halictid sweat bees move up and down it depending on latitude and season. The solitary majority is the normal way to be a bee.
6 groups · 110 records in the catalogue
Eusocial, colony dies each autumn
21 records
Bees living this way. Around ninety per cent of bee species are solitary, and the social ones people picture when they think of bees are a small and unrepresentative minority.
Primitively eusocial
3 records
Bees living this way. Around ninety per cent of bee species are solitary, and the social ones people picture when they think of bees are a small and unrepresentative minority.
Solitary
45 records
Bees living this way. Around ninety per cent of bee species are solitary, and the social ones people picture when they think of bees are a small and unrepresentative minority.
Communal — shared entrance, separate cells
1 records
Bees living this way. Around ninety per cent of bee species are solitary, and the social ones people picture when they think of bees are a small and unrepresentative minority.
Cleptoparasitic — lays in other bees' nests
8 records
Bees living this way. Around ninety per cent of bee species are solitary, and the social ones people picture when they think of bees are a small and unrepresentative minority.