Secrets in the canopy: scientists discover 8 striking new bee species in the Pacific
- Written by James B. Dorey, Lecturer in Biological Sciences, University of Wollongong
After a decade searching for new species of bees in forests of the Pacific Islands, all we had to do was look up.
We soon found eight new species of masked bees in the forest canopy: six in Fiji, one in French Polynesia and another in Micronesia. Now we expect to find many more.
Forest-dwelling bees evolved for thousands of...
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