Description
Accented with color plates of select bees, The Bees of the World will continue to be the world's best reference on these diverse insects.
The author has produced a new definitive world taxonomic treatise on this large group of insects and is to be congratulated. British Journal of Entomology and Natural History 2008
Charles D. Michener is curator emeritus, Entomology Division, University of Kansas Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center, and professor emeritus, Entomology Program, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas. His books include The Social Behavior of Bees.