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02-21-2019, 01:25 PM
World's largest bee, missing for 38 years, found in Indonesia
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/02/22/science/22TB-GIANTBEE1/merlin_150965649_7ac0032c-f141-4b72-a729-1b810508c2cc-articleLarge.jpg
As long as an adult thumb, with jaws like a stag beetle and four times larger than a honeybee, Wallace’s giant bee is not exactly inconspicuous.
But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
A search team of North American and Australian biologists found a single female Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) living inside a termites’ nest in a tree, more than two metres off the ground.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/worlds-largest-bee-missing-for-38-years-found-in-indonesia
https://static01.nyt.com/images/2019/02/22/science/22TB-GIANTBEE1/merlin_150965649_7ac0032c-f141-4b72-a729-1b810508c2cc-articleLarge.jpg
As long as an adult thumb, with jaws like a stag beetle and four times larger than a honeybee, Wallace’s giant bee is not exactly inconspicuous.
But after going missing, feared extinct, for 38 years, the world’s largest bee has been rediscovered on the Indonesian islands of the North Moluccas.
A search team of North American and Australian biologists found a single female Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) living inside a termites’ nest in a tree, more than two metres off the ground.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/feb/21/worlds-largest-bee-missing-for-38-years-found-in-indonesia