We are lucky we both live on the right side of 'The Wallace Line'*
@Tal , they just rediscovered
Wallace's Giant Bee in Indonesia.
Your unknown patched mate would have needed an f*ckin big epipen for one of these!
Giant bee species, feared extinct, found alive and well in Indonesia
*Wallace's Line delineates Australian and Southeast Asian fauna. The probable extent of land at the time of the
last glacial maximum, when the sea level was more than 110 m lower than today, is shown in grey. The deep water of the
Lombok Strait between Bali and Lombok formed a water barrier even when lower sea levels linked the now-separated islands and landmasses on either side.