The Bittersweet Parable of the Planet’s Biggest Bee

Image: Alexis Rockman / re:wild. Article by Oliver Milman. Mother Jones (article originally published by Undark) – March 25, 2022.

While working as a curatorial assistant at the American Museum of Natural History, Eli Wyman learned about a very unusual bee that was presumed to be extinct. The bee, Megachile pluto, also known as Wallace’s giant bee, is a massive unit. It is the largest bee in the world, four times larger than a honeybee and measuring about the length of a human thumb. […]

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