Bee Named after Ancient Native-American Cliff Dwellers

Monday, September 12, 2016 - 14:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Utah State University (USU) graduate student Michael Orr rummaged through drawer after drawer at the National Pollinating Insects Collection until his doggedness paid off. Inside one drawer, he spied what he’d been seeking: specimens of an unnamed, fuzzy gray bee and their nests-carved into chunks of sandstone. Could these bees have made the same sandstone […]

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