Most kids in Kobe, Japan spend their free time on baseball, Pokémon cards, or manga. Jo Nagai spent his hand-raising swallowtail butterflies — and along the way, stumbled into a question serious entomologists have spent careers trying to answer. A Question Sparked by a Habit Asian swallowtails, easily recognized by the bright markings along their wings, are important … [Read more...] about The 10-Year-Old Whose Backyard Butterfly Experiment Caught a Georgetown Scientist’s Attention
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The World’s Largest Bee, Previously Considered to be Extinct, has been Discovered in Indonesia
Megachile pluto is the size of a honeybee, but it's four times bigger. Alfred Russel Wallace, a renowned naturalist, discovered the Megachile pluto, the world's largest bee, while exploring the lonely island of Bacan in the North Moluccas, Indonesia, in 1859. The bee, which is almost four times the size of a honeybee, is described by Wallace as a "huge black wasp-like … [Read more...] about The World’s Largest Bee, Previously Considered to be Extinct, has been Discovered in Indonesia