And do you wanna talk about some of the bee families that we might encounter here?

So yeah.

We have, here in Washington, a diverse ecoregion, so we have a vast number of choices, or not choices, but a vast number of bees that we'll see in, uh, range in the different families.

I often plan trips around seeing the bees during the region, in different regions.

I'm always stopping at wildflowers, and especially I spot nesting behaviors in bees.

You know, I will take a good amount of time to study that.

But the bee families in Washington, I've encountered all of them except for one, and that is the oil bee family, which is MelittidaeAnd there are just one single species here in Washington, but the rest of us would likely see the other families represented, and they include 124 mining bees, which is Andrenidae, um, 151 digger bees, which is Apidae, 84 sweat bees, Halictidae, and, uh, 170, 77 mason and leafcutter bees, um, Megachilidae, and 30 plaster and masp bees in Collectidae.

But just for the next couple minutes, what are some of the things that we can do to help bees?