This family consists of the honey bees, stingless bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, cuckoo bees, bumblebees, and others. In all there are about 30,000 species, they all eat pollen and nectar and feed their larvae on the same diet.
Apis are the honey bees. There are 8 species, though 11 have been recorded.
The genus Bombus contains the commonly named Bumblebees. These are social insects that construct their nests underground, or in the case of the Carder bees in leaf litter beneath hedges.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. lapidarius
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. pascuorum
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. sylvestris
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Bombus
Species: B. vestalis
The genus Nomada contains over 850 species and is one of the largest of the Apidae genera. These bees are wasp like with yellow and black, or brown and black markings. Most of them are Kleptoparasites and are known as cuckoo bees, due to laying their eggs in the nests of other species.
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Nomada
Species: N. flava
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Family: Apidae
Genus: Nomada
Species: N. ruficornis
