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The Sunshine State’s iconic wildlife includes the American alligator, the Florida panther, the scrub jay and the manatee. But some species unique to Florida are less familiar, like the ultra-rare blue calamintha bee. First described in 2011, scientists weren’t sure the bee still existed. The spec
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales

In 1947, a small package containing an unknown plant specimen arrived at the Florida Museum of Natural History Herbarium. For 37 years, the thorny stem and leaves sat pressed between pages of a yellowed newspaper, filed in a cabinet among the vast library of Florida plants, until University of Flori
Knowing it was from the Lake Wales Ridge in central

Clint Gibson Field Researcher Email: cgibson2@ufl.edu Current Museum Projects: Since 2019, I have worked with Dr. Chase Kimmel and the FLMNH Team on the Osmia calaminthae Project. Along with a large team of collaborators, we study the current distribution, ecology, behavior, and lim
with the Caupolicana floridana study on the Lake Wales

Florida Museum of Natural History scientists have found the first nest of Florida’s extraordinarily rare blue calamintha bee and added a new location to its known range: Ocala National Forest. They also confirmed the insect feeds on a second, but highly endangered, host plant. Researchers made th
calaminthae, was known from only four locations on Lake Wales

The vertebrate paleontology division at the Florida Museum of Natural History recently received its largest private donation, an estimated 40,000 to 50,000 identifiable specimens. The specimens formerly comprised the world’s second-largest collection of Florida vertebrate fossils. The museum will
The museum will honor Lake Wales resident John Waldrop

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Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales

During the ice ages of the Pleistocene, the Florida peninsula regularly expanded to twice its current size as glaciers grew near the planet’s poles, only to be reduced to a series of islands as melting ice returned to the sea during warm periods. All told, glaciers advanced and retreated 17 times, a
Florida, where they washed ashore on the ancient Lake Wales

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales

from the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fieldwork Florida’s rare blue bee rediscovered at Lake Wales