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  • Back from the dead: World’s biggest bee, thought to be extinct for decades, found in Indonesia

    07/09/2019 6:42:10 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 33 replies
    dcdirtylaundry.com ^ | July 7, 2019 | By Lance D Johnson
    A giant wasp-like insect with the face of a stag beetle was just re-discovered by a wildlife photographer on an unspecified island in Indonesia. The insect hadn’t been spotted since 1981 and was thought to be extinct for decades. The insect is known as Wallace’s giant bee, named after the British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who discovered the winged insect in 1858. The giant black insect has immense jaws and looks like a stag beetle. It is the size of an adult thumb – four times larger than the European honeybee. The bee has a two and half inch wing...