Discover and Protect Our Wild Bees

A reference book to discover wild bees and act for their preservation

While the decline of the domestic bee has already been the subject of numerous debates, publications, and actions, that of wild bees, equally alarming, has gone unnoticed for longer. Yet, these insects – approximately 20,000 species worldwide and close to 900 in France – are among the primary pollinators.

But who are wild bees? How do they live? Where can you find them? How to observe them? Recognize them? And how to help them?

Specialist Nicolas Vereecken answers these questions with texts accessible to all and beautiful images showing them in their environment, in the different phases of their life cycle, and in all their characteristic diversity. He also explains, in a resolutely practical section, how everyone can, in their own way, participate in the preservation of these endearing and incredibly useful insects, in the garden or on the balcony. The different models of nest boxes to install depending on the type of bee one wishes to attract, the nourishing plants to favor, are detailed…