Honey Collector in Portrait - The whole variety of bees of this earth - Fascinating close-ups - Way of life of extraordinary bee species Worldwide there are more than 20.000 known and countless still undiscovered bee species; more than all mammal, bird and reptile species together. In this book 104 special species from all over the world are presented in fascinating close-ups and informative short texts. Of course the European honey bee (Apis mellifera) is also portrayed, but there are also numerous wild bee species on our continent, such as the trouser bee, the saw horn bee or the silk bee. The mortar bee of North Africa builds clay nests on the walls of buildings, and in Peru there is a stingless honeybee, which is also state-forming. Almost invisible are the millimeter-long steppe bees of Asia, much larger is the leaf-cutter bee of Hawaii. Next to it there are.