Bees are vegetarian wasps!
Somewhere back in the mists of time, the ancestors of bees, wasps in the family Crabronidae preyed on other insects, but as pollen producing plants appeared, they adapted to eat pollen possibly, starting by eating smaller plant dwelling insects that were covered in pollen, but adapting to live on the pollen itself. The earliest insect pollinated plants were thought to have been pollinated by other insects, such as beetles, but bees developed as specialized pollinators, and thus allowed the development and spread of flowering plants. Bees and flowers developed together, and one could not exist without the other. A perfect symbiotic relationship. Bees developed behaviourally and physically to specifically enhance pollination and are more efficient at the task than any other insect, including butterflies and pollinatiing wasps. The earliest bee fossil that has so far been found is 100 million years old embeded in amber
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