An island bee familySourced
Sixty-four Hawaiian bee species
may trace to one arrival.
The 64 known Hawaiian Hylaeus bee species are thought to descend from one ancestor that reached the islands around 1 to 1.5 million years ago. Wind or floating debris may have helped the journey.
One arrival,
many island descendants.
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