This one looks like a flying furball. The thick orange fur isn't just cute — it helps trap and carry pollen between flowers.

This bee sneaks into other bees' nests and lays its own eggs there. The host bee raises the cuckoo's babies without knowing!

This bee snips perfect circles from leaves with its jaws and rolls them into tiny leaf burritos to wrap its eggs in. If you see neat round holes in your garden leaves, a leafcutter has been busy.

One of Australia's most spectacular bees — its body shimmers like a tiny piece of green metal. It bores neat tunnels into soft wood to build its nest.

One of the few native bees that actually makes honey — and it's delicious. Indigenous Australians have harvested sugarbag honey for thousands of years.

Famous for buzz-pollination — it grabs flowers and vibrates so fast (350 times per second!) that the pollen shakes right out. Tomato farmers love these bees.

Instead of leaves or mud, resin bees collect sticky plant sap to build the walls of their nests. Some mix in sand, bark, or even flower petals to get exactly the right texture.

Wasp-like and nearly hairless. No fur, no pollen baskets — masked bees swallow pollen to carry it home in their stomach and regurgitate it into their nest cells.

Sometimes called ‘sweat bees’ because they’re attracted to the salts in human sweat, which they collect as a mineral source.