There could be only one bee today!… Well, one of over 800 bees, in fact. This is the number of members of the genus Nomada. These bees are cuckoos, their progeny develops in the nests of other bee species, for example mining bees (Andrena). I’m quite not sure where does the genus name come from. Is it because the bees don’t have their own ‘homes’, as they don’t build nests?
Non-honey bees 
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