Conservation New colony of a rare stingless bee, once presumed absent from California, found by a four-year-old in palo alto (Bay Nature) Four-year-old Annika Arnout, on a neighborhood outing with her caregiver and her pet garden snail this spring, found not one, but two, colonies of a tiny, stingless bee native to Brazil, adding a new twist to an entomological detective story 70 years in the making.