ISLE OF WIGHT COUNTY, Va. (WAVY) — A rare bee that had not been seen in the Commonwealth in a century was found on a private property in Isle of Wight County.
In partnership with the Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program (CZM), the Virginia Natural Heritage Program conducted a survey of private lands and Lead Field Zoologist Ellison Orcutt rediscovered a Protandrena abdominalis. It is a rare ground nesting bee of sandy soils that specializes on the flowers of horsemint…