# Rediscovery of ‘extinct’ bee

**URL:** <https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/rediscovery-of-extinct-bee/21202>\
**Category:** General Bee Chat\
**Tags:** native-bees, hesperocolletes-douglasi-michener\
**Created:** [March 8, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/rediscovery-of-extinct-bee/21202 "2019-03-08T07:00:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![SnowflakeHoney](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.honeyflow.com/snowflakehoney/32/7036_2.png) [@SnowflakeHoney](https://forum.honeyflow.com/u/SnowflakeHoney)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2019, 7:00am UTC](https://forum.honeyflow.com/t/rediscovery-of-extinct-bee/21202/1 "2019-03-08T07:00:31Z")

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We just need to look harder…and not clear their natural habitat:

> **['Extinct' WA bee back from the dead | Community News Group](https://www.communitynews.com.au/wanneroo-times/news/extinct-bee-found-in-pinjar-bushland/)**
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> A UWA PhD candidate found a species of bee in banksia woodland in Pinjar that was presumed extinct in 1994.

This link is to the article published by the researchers:  
[https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4610/6180](https://www.threatenedtaxa.org/index.php/JoTT/article/view/4610/6180)