Show hab ts of W id bees there are about five thousand species of the wild bees all with interest ing ways of their own among them is a species whose females are able amazons and carry more and better weapons than the males there are the cuckoo bees who deposit their eggs in the nests of others the progeny of both living peaceably together until maturity when they separate then there Is the tailoring bee which cuts leaves with her scissors like jaws and fits a snug lining of the leaf material into her cave shaped nest |