Non-honey bees

As I told you, I’m preparing portraits of Polish bees, and here is another one which I’d like to show you. Epeoloides coecutiens and Macropis europaea are both cute, and their parasitic relationship is interesting (like every relationship between a cuckoo bee and its host!). Did you know that Epeoloides coecutiens was once told to be the rarest species of bee in Europe? It is not the rarest, in fact, but in general cuckoo bees tend to be quite uncommon because of their lifestyle.

And fun fact: the Polish names of these bees are real tongue-twisters: skrócinka białonoga and mamrzyk skrócinkowiec I just checked that if you paste these names into Google Translate, it can read it properly. So if you are courious how to pronounce these names, you can check there