World’s largest bee, once presumed extinct, filmed alive in the wild

The world’s largest bee mayalso be the planet’s most elusive. First discovered in 1859 by theprominent scientist Alfred Russel Wallace, nobody could locate it again,
and it was presumed extinct.But Wallace’s giant bee (Megachile pluto) was not gone. In1981, an entomologist named Adam Messer searched and found it on threeislands in Indonesia, on an archipelago called the North Moluccas. Hecollected a specimen and wrote about his discovery in 1984.Now, for the first time, it has