World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
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Re: World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
#2Thanks, I hate it. :)
Re: World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
#3Thanks, I hate it. :)
You hate the rediscovery or the bee?
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#4Alfred Russell Wallace, the namesake of this bee, was a very interesting character and largely forgotten next to Charles Darwin. There's a rather great documentary with comedian/naturalist Bill Bailey that I would recommend watching if you're interested in this area of the world and Wallace's history: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2968430/
Re: World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
#5Thanks, I hate it. :)
Don't worry, we will soon have it killed off along with the rest of the insects.
Re: World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
#6I fully expected this to be a resident of The Land of Misfit Animals, AKA Australia.
Quite surprised it's not. Indonesia is close enough that it might have escaped it's confines, though.
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#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
Don't worry, we will soon have it killed off along with the rest of the insects.
Do you really think we can create a greater extinction event than the ones the insects have survived? And yes, that includes some serious climate changes.
All-out nuclear war?
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#9> Wallace's giant bee (Megachile pluto), which can reach four times the size of a honeybee
Something is weird. They head the article with a big image captioned "Wallace's giant bee in comparison with a honeybee"; it shows the honeybee as being much less than a quarter the size of the giant bee.
Re: World's largest bee ‘rediscovered’ after 38 years
#10Specimens sold to collectors for several thousand pounds, don't think they're going to survive long unless some enterprising "poacher" breeds them.