PhysOrg: James Hung has collected more than 17,000 wild bees from coastal, desert and mountain areas of San Diego County. But many of his specimens bear little resemblance to the honey bees we normally think of as bees. To the casual observer, his bee collection looks more like a menagerie of Insects Gone Wild-gnat-sized bugs with long snouts, gigantic black bees and curious iridescent creatures with termite-like wings.
"When I first started studying native bees, I really didn't know that there was this...