'Extinct' British resident repatriated after 100 years

摘要

A brinsh resident transported to the Antipodes a century ago will soon be repatriated. The short-haired bumblebee was sent to New Zealand to pollinate red clover In 1875 In one of the first refrigerated ships. The bee subsequently dled out in its native country: last seen in 1988, it was declared extinct in the UK In 2000.rnEfforts to relntroduce the bee have been thwarted by failures in captive breeding and by "bee jet lag"-the inability of long-haul bees to adapt to the sudden hemisphere shift.