Birds and bee lessons as Pacific field trips also solve 'Michener's mystery'

Credit: COURTESY JAMES DOREY PHOTOGRAPHY

LAKE TAGIMOUCIA AS SEEN FROM DES VOEUX PEAK ON TAVEUNI, FIJI. BOTH THE LAKE AND THE PEAK HAVE BEEN THE SITES WHERE NEW SPECIES WERE FOUND. THE PEAK IN PARTICULAR IS WHERE THE FIRST FIJIAN HYLAEUS WERE COLLECTED FOR THIS PROJECT.

« Birds and bee lessons as Pacific field trips also solve 'Michener's mystery'

Credit: Courtesy James Dorey Photography

This little bee (3–5 mm) bee Hylaeus derectus is only known thus far from near Mt Nadarivatu on Viti Levu, Fiji. It was collected from a canopy-flowering mistletoe.

« Birds and bee lessons as Pacific field trips also solve 'Michener's mystery'

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