Bees are flying bugs very closely linked to wasps and ants, and are renowned for their part in pollination and generating honey and beeswax. Bees are a monophyletic family tree inside the superfamily Apoidea, currently indexed under the unranked taxon name Anthophila. There are actually almost 20,000 known types of bees in seven to nine acknowledged families, although many more are undescribed and the real amount is most likely higher. They are located on every continent except Antarctica, in each and every habitat of the world which has insect-pollinated flowering vegetation.
