Why are bees important?: Quick Facts

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Close-up of a small carpenter bee, Xylocopa, with a metallic purple sheen on its body, perched on a yellow flower.

Two Osmia cornuta solitary bees rest on a wooden nesting site made of hollow tubes, with the bees facing outward and the tubes visible in the background.

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