Bees of the WorldWhen many people think of bees, they are likely to picture the western domesticated honey bee, insects that live in large, socially complex societies inside a hive with a single queen and thousands of workers. But this familiar bee is just one of more than 20,000 species of beesand almost none of the others is anything like it. In Bees of the World, Laurence Packer, one of the worlds foremost experts on wild bees, celebrates the amazing diversity of