World's largest bee rediscovered in Indonesia

Published: 21 February 2019
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Once feared extinct, Wallace’s giant bee has been seen again in the North Moluccas. As long as an adult thumb, it has jaws like a stag beetle and is four times larger than a honeybee. A search team of North American and Australian biologists found the single female giant bee (Megachile pluto) living inside a termites' nest in a tree, more than two metres off the ground

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