News Headline
Nearly 500 bee species are thriving in a small patch of US desert
Source
New Scientist
Publication Date
2021-03-29
There are about 20,000 known species of bee on the planet, and nowhere else is this diversity more concentrated than in southern Arizona along the US-Mexico border. Hundreds of bee species can be found in a patch of desert there about the size of Heathrow airport, meaning it has the world’s densest aggregation of bee species yet measured.