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I think most bees are solitary and live in burrows they make in the ground. And only two species of bee make honey.

> And only two species of bee make honey.

Not true, unless you mean that humans only harvest the honey of two species.

I'm sure you're right, I was just quoting something someone told me one time and I probably picked them up wrong.

Nothing odd about that. The popular concept of a beehive is a style of sociality specific to honeybees, which aren't even native to North America. It's only their economic importance that leads them to be regarded as the "standard" bee.

Wow, that is a beautiful creature.

Last time I read about bee's I found that bees range from totally solitary, to gregarious, to communal, to a large number of eusocial colonial species.

is this Australian? seems like it's endemic to United States FL.

https://explorer.natureserve.org/Taxon/ELEMENT_GLOBAL.2.8725...

By "this" I meant the bee in the example picture I linked, Amegilla cingulata.

That's how you're not found!