Mastodawn

Chestnut mining bee, I presume?

Yep the long lost bee has been rediscovered. This bee population was decimated with the Chestnut tree bight in 1900. But they back, baby! And a good thing too!

#bees #nature

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/30/i-discovered-chestnut-mining-bee-new-york-molly-jacobson-aoe

I discovered the elusive chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 years

For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State

The Guardian