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Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
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Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#12even though the picture is not real, that's a truly beautiful creature! to be honest, i would personally prefer blue bees over yellow. there's just something about the color blue...
Why would you say that the picture is not real? That is a bold claim to make without any evidence, especially since you are incorrect. For anyone curious, image was originally published in the scientific journal ZooKeys. (https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2987)
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#13even though the picture is not real, that's a truly beautiful creature! to be honest, i would personally prefer blue bees over yellow. there's just something about the color blue...
The color is absolutely real. Many Hymenoptera, and other insects have this coloration. It structural, not pigment, bouncing light around via microscopic grooves and ridges. Fun fact, most Hymenoptera are also very very small, ~2mm or so, and some the chalcid, or jewel-wasps are very often iridescent.
Someone just pulled off this same effect with Chocolate a while back. [1] (NTY paywall]
[1](https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/21/science/chocolate-irisdes...)
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#14I was just discussing blue bees with my friend--they're native to Australia. I had no idea they were in North America as well.
It's a different species though, this is the Australian one: https://imgur.com/X1vf3v4 Oddly enough they're solitary, rather than living in hives.
That's how you're not found!
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#15I pray to God that there's an Archive.org for biology somewhere, that scientists are trying to sequence the genome of every possible species that we can find, just so that we can give _something_ to the future before we wipe it all out. I'd even settle for the dystopian version where a biotech company does it just to patent all of the genes that nature has already paid the cost to evolve.
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#16I was just discussing blue bees with my friend--they're native to Australia. I had no idea they were in North America as well.
It's a different species though, this is the Australian one: https://imgur.com/X1vf3v4 Oddly enough they're solitary, rather than living in hives.
Wow, that is a beautiful creature.
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#17I pray to God that there's an Archive.org for biology somewhere, that scientists are trying to sequence the genome of every possible species that we can find, just so that we can give _something_ to the future before we wipe it all out. I'd even settle for the dystopian version where a biotech company does it just to patent all of the genes that nature has already paid the cost to evolve.
We think we only know about 10% of the species on the planet. We're a long way from archiving dna records of them all.
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#18I pray to God that there's an Archive.org for biology somewhere, that scientists are trying to sequence the genome of every possible species that we can find, just so that we can give _something_ to the future before we wipe it all out. I'd even settle for the dystopian version where a biotech company does it just to patent all of the genes that nature has already paid the cost to evolve.
We think we only know about 10% of the species on the planet. We're a long way from archiving dna records of them all.
Source?
Re: Blue bee feared to be extinct is found in Florida
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
We think we only know about 10% of the species on the planet. We're a long way from archiving dna records of them all.
Source?