Now this is exciting! A new bee species! This means that the death of the bees we know and love, in their hives over winter, is off set by Nature. Nature does know how to keep “life” in balance.
The message to all of us is that instead of bemoaning what no longer exits, ie. the past, we need to look for the new things in the present moment to see what is changing. Usually this change results in positive things, if one looks at the picture long enough. For more thoughts around this, see my blog, Buddha Speaks – Allow Everything To Be Perfect from the end of August.
Enjoy this story, and look for the new things in life!
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New bee species found in downtown Toronto
Last Updated: Wednesday, September 1, 2010 | 4:09 PM ET By Emily Chung, CBC News
Jason Gibbs collected the first specimen of this new species of sweat bee from a front garden on Brunswick Avenue in downtown Toronto on his way to the Spadina subway station. (Jason Gibbs/York University)
Bees found in downtown Toronto and the Okanagan desert are among 19 new species discovered by a university graduate student while he was working on his PhD.
Jason Gibbs found one species while walking up Brunswick Avenue to the Spadina subway station in Toronto one morning in the fall of 2006.
As usual, Gibbs, who has since graduated from York University in Toronto, had his net ready in case he spotted any bees among the flowers.
"People have some really nice front gardens on Brunswick Avenue," Gibbs said Wednesday. "I just stop anywhere that looks like good bee habitat and I collect as many as I can."
Have you seen a sweat bee?
Sweat bees are dark-coloured and most are just half a centimetre long.
"I imagine most people have probably seen them, but they may not have recognized them as bees," researcher Jason Gibbs said.
When he's shown sweat bees to friends, they tell him they would have mistaken the insects for flying ants.
While sweat bees can sting, they're so small that their stingers can't penetrate human skin, Gibbs said. "I usually pick them up with my fingers without any problems."
The sweat bee he popped into his jar that morning turned out to be one that had never been identified, even though it later proved to be common throughout Eastern Canada and the United States.
Gibbs found other new species in the arid Okanagan region of southeastern B.C.
Gibbs's exhaustive descriptions of 84 sweat bees, including the new species, were published Wednesday in the journal Zootaxa. They also won him the 2010 dissertation prize from York University.
Sweat bees are tiny black or iridescent green bees known for their attraction to perspiring humans.
Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2010/09/01/sweat-bees-gibbs.html#ixzz0yQ03tx5b
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