In the long chronicle of human impact on the natural world, the story of pollinators has largely been one of loss — a steady withdrawal from landscapes reshaped beyond recognition. Yet on the Fijian island of Viti Levu, a Flinders University study has found lowland sweat bees not in retreat but in expansion, their populations rising precisely where human disturbance has been most pronounced. The finding does not overturn the broader crisis facing native insects, but it reminds us that nature's response to human presence is rarely a single, uniform tragedy — some threads fray while others, unex