4-year-old girl discovers rare stingless bees in California
A 4-year-old Palo Alto girl with a knack for nature found two colonies of rare stingless bees, creatures that scientists thought were long gone and that no adult had managed to notice. Her discovery found its way to California’s Department of Food and Agriculture Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch, where Dr. Martin Hauser is a senior insect biosystematist – and it has the science world buzzing.
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