A new count of Vermont’s bee species has identified nine species not previously reported in the Green Mountain State, bringing the total number of species in Vermont to 352, more than any northern New England state.
A new count of Vermont’s bee species has identified nine species not previously reported in the Green Mountain State, bringing the total number of species in Vermont to 352, more than any northern New England state.
“It surprises absolutely everyone to hear what the total number of bees is,” says University of Vermont pollination expert Taylor Ricketts, director of UVM’s Gund Institute for Environment and coauthor of the new paper published in the journal Northeastern Naturalist.
Recent counts of bee species across New England identified 325 species in New Hampshire and 278 in Maine. Greater diversity was found further south in Connecticut (386 species) and Massachusetts (397).
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