EditorialMax McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, marks a rare species of bee, Andrena parnassiae, in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)
EditorialMax McCarthy, an ecologist and Ph.D. candidate at Rutgers University, marks a rare species of bee, Andrena parnassiae, in northern New Jersey on Sept. 12, 2021. (Jonno Rattman/The New York Times)
EditorialMining bee, Andrena nigroaenea (Melitta nigro-aenea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.
EditorialMining bee, Andrena nigroaenea (Melitta nigro-aenea). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by James Sowerby from The British Miscellany, or Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects, London, 1804.