#megachile pluto

[ketrinadrawsalot]

Happy World Bee Day!

Now's a good time as any to draw Wallace's Giant Bee. You bet I'm gonna print this out and slap this on my car as a sticker.

[b0iled3gg]

6. Pierce

I wonder how this lil' guy tastes like.. Fries mb?🤷‍♂️

Idk, looks crunchy🦷🍟

[satanachia666]

The World’s Largest Bee is the Megachile pluto. This specimen is at Naturalis Biodiversity Center (1991). 🐝🐝🐝🖤🖤🖤💛💛💛

The specimen pictured above is from the Zoology and Geology catalogues (nl) collected in Kampong Pasir Putih Halmahera on 1991-02-28 by Desmier de Chenon, R.

Scientists thought Megachile pluto were extinct until two Megachile pluto specimens were sold on eBay for $9,100 and $4,150 in 2018. A live female was discovered and filmed for the first time in 2019. Before that, the world’s largest bee hadn’t been seen since 1981.

I hope conservation efforts are successful in rescuing this beautiful species from extinction. I am praying to Beelzebub that the Megachile pluto thrives and prospers with human intervention. Hail Beelzebub! 🤘 Thank you for looking after the world’s insects, including this magnificent bee! 💖

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[mudwerks]

The World’s Largest Bee and the Cautionary Tale of Its Rediscovery | Atlas Obscura

Megachile pluto is the world’s largest bee, coming in approximately four times times larger than a European honey bee 

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[wikipediaoutofcontext]

The bee is among the 25 "most wanted"

[lordsmaf]

World's Biggest Bee, Once Thought Extinct, Has Been Found Alive

A black, thumb-sized missile sails through the jungle air, a thunderous buzzing announcing its arrival. The massive insect lands heavily on a tree-bound termite nest, taking a moment to fold its brassy wings and stretch its humongous, curved jaws. This is Wallace’s giant bee, the beefiest and bumbliest bee on Earth. After going missing for nearly four decades, the species has just been rediscovered in its native Indonesia.

BIG FRIEND

[bugkeeping]

Body size variation in bees by Nicolas Vereecken Megachile pluto, Bombus ruderarius, Ceratina parvula. 

[fresherbrine]

2/21/2019 Wired: The Triumphant Rediscovery of the Biggest Bee on Earth