Saturday, January 9, 2010

The biggest bee In a Whole world is in Indonesia

Megachile pluto

It is not hoax ! The biggest bee in the world is in indonesia. it is called " Megachile pluto " . The source is come from wikipedia. Read here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megachile_pluto

Megachile pluto is a very large Indonesian resin bee (a leafcutter bee that uses resin to make compartments in its nest). As females can be as large as 39 mm (1.5") long with a wingspan of 63 mm (2.5"), Megachile pluto is regarded as the largest bee in the world, and has been referred to as Wallace's Giant Bee. Males only grow to about 23 mm (0.9") long.
Megachile pluto was first discovered in Indonesia in 1859 by the naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace. It was thought to be extinct until it was rediscovered in 1981 by Adam C. Messer, an American Entomologist, who found six nests on the island of Bacan and other nearby islands.
Megachile pluto build their nests inside active termite nests, which explains why even island residents were unaware of the bee's existence. "


The map of that bee on here :



And here are all pictures for Megachile pluto:


















From all that pictures, we can is that it is very big bee in the world. Please contact me if you found bigger bee than Megachile pluto :)

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