The rainbow bee, also known as
Homalictus fijiensis, is a crucial plant pollinator that s distributed all over the archipelagos of the Pacific Ocean, Southeast Asia, Australia, and Indonesia.
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Rainbow Bee
Well known for their conspicuous colors, these plant pollinators play a crucial role in the maintenance of local ecosystems. And they do this by distributing pollen and assisting in plant growth. Now, a new paper proposes their existence in some places may be because of human intervention, and that the present world may have appeared very different if humans hadn t taken over their habitat.
Rainbow bees only inhabit the lowlands of Fiji thousands of years ago, but about 1000BC, humans came into their habitat and started clearing the land and bringing in new weeds and plants into the area.
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