‘Bees’ is the simplified name for the insect in the Superfamily, Apoidea and in the Clade, Anthophila as categorized by its taxonomy. There are over twenty thousand species of Bees and the name Bees can be used in a manor that over generalizes the species leading to some confusion. Of the thousands of Bee species three of them face critical danger, The Honeybee (Apis Mellifera and Apis Cerana), the Bumblebee (Bombus fervidus), and Yellow-faced Bee (Hylaeus anthracinus).

Honeybees and Bumblebees are the most familiar species of bee, and the first type of bees the average grade schooler can name off the top of their head. In 2016 it made the news that for the first time Bees were added to the Endangered Species list. [1] It was widely assumed that the Bees they meant were the Honey bees for as the article circulated social media some things were lost in translation.  [2] Do to the decline in the population which has occured for centuries prior CCD or Colony Collapse Disorder was wide regarded to be what must have landed the Bees on the list, however it was the Yellow-face Bee a small species of Bee native of Hawaii that was placed on the Endangered species list. [3] In the year that followed, 2017, the Bumblebee followed suit and was placed on the list as well by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [4]  

However despite not being placed on the endangered Species list the Honeybee faces perils of its own. Honeybees face Colony Collapse Disorder, Acarapis Woodi, Small Hive Beetles, Varroa Mites, as well as Neonicotinoids.