A team of Utah State University
researchers has found nine new species of bees that are found only in
the Western United States, including Utah.
The
new species of the Perdita subgenus Heteroperdita were reported by
USU’s Terry Griswold and Zach Portman with researchers from other
institutions in the Dec. 23 edition of the journal Zootaxa.
“It’s
exciting — you can go in our backyard, in parts of Utah and adjacent
states, and find something that no one knew was there,” said Griswold, a
USU adjunct professor and researcher at the U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s Bee Lab in Logan.
Statewide,
these bees are found in places like the Great Salt Lake and the Grand
Staircase Escalante National Monument, but probably not Cache Valley,
because the plant the insects visit for pollen likely doesn’t exist
here, Griswold said.-Read More
No comments:
Post a Comment