美国本土蜜蜂知多少：专访悉尼·舒马尔

Meet America’s Native Bees Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S. BY MEGHAN BARTELS S PRING HAS ARRIVED IN THE U.S., bringing its bright spectacle of budding trees and migrating birds, along with more subtle but equally important changes— among them the annual emergence of native bees. But “native bees” doesn’t include the insect most of us picture when we hear the word “bee.” That yellow-and- black-striped, hive-living, honey-making critter—formally Apis mellifera—hails from Europe. Farmers rely on these tiny imports as, essentially, livestock animals that pollinate food crops and produce honey. But their wild, native counterparts are something completely different. …