a month agoThe biggest bee in the world is 38 years from now.
Periskopi(7 years ago)
(7 years ago)Biologists discovered the only giant female Wallace bee inside a nest of termites in a tree. She is four times larger than a common bee and was thought to have disappeared. After 38 years, however, the world's largest bee has been restored to the Indonesian islands of northern Molucca. One [...]
She is four times larger than a common bee and was thought to have disappeared.
After 38 years, however, the world's largest bee has been restored to the Indonesian islands of northern Molucca.
A team of North American and Australian biologists found the giant female Volace bee (Megachile pluto), which lived within a nest of termites in a tree more than six feet [2 m] from the ground.
The giant female bee may be nearly fourcm long first became known for science in 1858 when British explorer and naturalist Alfred Russell Wallace discovered it on the Indonesian island of Bacan. He described the female bee as a big, black, wild, <x0th, black insect, with a wide jaw at”.
The bee's habitat is threatened by massive deforestation for agriculture in Indonesia, and its size makes it a target for collectors.
Currently, there is no legal protection for trading Wallace's giant bee.
