LAKE WALES, Fla. (CBSMiami/CNN) -- A rare blue bee scientists thought might have become extinct has been rediscovered in Florida. The metallic navy insect, a blue calamintha bee, had only been ...

Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an "ultra-rare" metallic blue bee that hadn't been spotted in years – so long that experts weren't sure it still existed. A researcher at the Florida Museum of ...

Researchers believe the new bee species, called Andrena androfovea, formed its own branch on the Andrena family tree about 12.6 million years ago.(James Hung) A new species of metallic blue bee, found ...

Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an "ultra-rare" metallic blue bee that hadn't been spotted in years – so long that experts weren't sure it still existed. Florida Museum of Natural History ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. - Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an “ultra-rare” metallic blue bee that hadn’t been spotted in years – so long that experts weren’t sure it still existed. The Naples Daily ...

Chase Kimmel, a postdoctoral researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History rediscovered the bee on March 9, which was the first time one had been spotted since 2016. "We observed a shiny little ...

LAKE WALES, Fla. (AP) — Researchers in Florida have rediscovered an “ultra-rare” metallic blue bee that hadn’t been spotted in years – so long that experts weren’t sure it still existed. The Naples ...

This blue calamintha bee specimen was collected in 2002 in Placid Lakes and is one of five specimens at the Florida State Collection of Arthropods in Gainesville. (Florida Museum of Natural History ...