Non-honey bees

Just a few weeks ago a new edition of the Red List of Bees of Europe was published by IUCN. I was one of the co-authors. It replaces the Red List published in 2014. In this edition, more species could be moved from the DD (data deficient) category, which is assigned when we don’t have enough information to say anything about their status, to the more informative categories: LC (least concern), NT (near threatened), VU (vulnerable), EN (endangered), or CR (critically endangered).

The Red List can be downloaded here, and if you want to look for details of a given species, you can search for it on the IUCN page.

PS And the bees on the drawing are blod bees (genus Sphecodes). Most members of this genus have more or less red colouration.