It’s always nice to hear some good news. So here is some of
the bee kind! An entomologist in the UK has recently found a species of bee that
was been thought to be extinct in Britain. The bee, Halictus Eurygnathus, was
last seen in 1946. And it was found on chalk downland just down the road from
my stamping ground back home!
The downside to this story is that another bee (a mining
bee, Andrena Hattorfiana) is suffering from habitat loss in the same area. But things can be done to help, like leaving
wildflower margins in arable fields. I
hope this particular lesson is rolled out to the mid-west!
