Native Bees of the Lower Rio Grande Valley

Author and photographer Paula Sharp has painstakingly documented more than 100 bee species of 45 distinct genera to produce Native Bees of the Lower Rio Grande Valley, offering readers a rare glimpse of the region’s bee life. Many of the bees shown here have never appeared in published photographs. Each species is presented in colorful detail, accompanied by notes on behavior and floral associations, and by short histories summarizing prior entomological studies.