Its unusual diet raises new questions about how it survives.
Sign up for TPR Today, Texas Public Radio's newsletter that brings our top stories to your inbox each morning. Scientists have discovered a new bee species that depends on a native Texas plant.
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This newly discovered Texas bee appears to live on just one plant — and nothing else
Learn how a new mining bee species in Texas depends entirely on the cenizo (Texas Ranger) plant for survival.
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New Texas mining bee may rely on a single plant genus for food
Researchers have formally described a new mining bee species found in Oklahoma and Texas that appears to gather pollen from ...
Entomologists have discovered a new species of mining bee that has an unusually tight relationship with cenizo, the official ...
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