Retired insect scientist finds new career in preserving bees

Sarah Brown

Of The New Era

Rich Little says he has two favorite types of fairies – both with wings: the fairy bee and the fairy wasp.

The fairy bee is about two millimeters (.07 inch) long, while the fairy wasp is a fraction of that.

You could line seven fairy wasps wingtip to wingtip, and they’d be able to fly like that through the hole of a shirt button, Little said. That’s how small…

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