I discovered the elusive chestnut mining bee in New York after a gap of 119 years

For decades, there was no record of Andrena rehni exisiting in the US. In 2018 it was found in Maryland and five years later I found it in New York State I’ve loved insects ever since I was a kid and spent summers looking for them. My mum would always tell me that from the age of one – even before I could walk – I would happily sit outside, watching ants and trying to follow them back to their colony. As an adult, I take people out to meadows with nets to catch insects and take a close look a...

By Molly Jacobson