(CNN) – An extremely rare blue bee that was last seen four years ago has been rediscovered by a researcher at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
Before the discovery, the blue bees were only found in four locations along the southern portion of the Lake Wales Ridge.
This spring, Kimmel was able to record the blue bee in seven new areas they were never spotted in before, proving their known range is larger than scientists thought.
Blue calamintha bees are endemic to Florida, and have only been found in scrub habitat in the Lake Wales Ridge -- one of the nation's fastest-disappearing ecosystems.
A solitary native bee, the blue calamintha does not live in a large colony.