A new hope: One of North America's rarest bees has its known range greatly expanded

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Apr 16, 2018, 2:46 am607 ptsHot
The Macropis Cuckoo Bee is one of the rarest bees in North America, partly because of its specialized ecological associations. It is a nest parasite of oil-collecting bees of the genus Macropis which, in turn, are dependent on oil-producing flowers of the genus Lysimachia.

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