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| Tango01 | 28 Jun 2019 9:50 p.m. PST |
…after 38 years. "Everything about Wallace's giant bee is goliath: It reaches an average body length of around 4 centimeters — about the size of a walnut — and has a wingspan of over 7.5 centimeters. Yet despite its eye-popping size, it's been nearly 40 years since the world's largest bee (Megachile pluto) was officially sighted in the wild. So when Eli Wyman, an entomologist at Princeton University, had an opportunity to hunt for the elusive bee, he jumped at the chance. He and two other scientists, along with photographer Clay Bolt, set off in January for a two-week expedition to forests on two of only three Indonesian islands where the bee has ever been found…."
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has been spending time in paradise lately.