Taxonomy is the science of classification and categorization. When applied to biological research, it commonly refers to the scientific study of naming, describing and classifying organisms.
Currently, the wild bees of Luxembourg can be classified in 33 different fundamental categories or “genera”, all of them with their unique characteristics, behaviors and life history traits.

Pollination is the transfer of pollen between plants, enabling reproduction and sustaining life on land. Many plants rely on insect pollinators, especially wild bees, which form mutualistic relationships with their hosts, shaping each other’s evolution

Barcodes are short fragments of DNA from standardized regions of the genome. Since each species has its own barcode, they serve as a sort of “fingerprint” that scientists can trace to find out the identity of an organism.