“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...

The newly identified Megachile lucifer highlights conservation concerns as it was found in mining-vulnerable habitat ...

By Shreya Dasgupta In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the ...

Lucifer is Latin for "light-bringer," and the name is also a play on its devil-like appearance, Curtin University said in a news release.Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox ...

The discovery of a new "lucifer" bee with devil-like horns sparks concerns over land clearing regulations in WA's Goldfields ...

A new species of bee has been identified in Australia, according to a new study. Megachile lucifer was named for its distinct ...

The devil is in the tiny details. A team of scientists discovered a new bee species they affectionately nicknamed “Lucifer” ...

“I was super excited to find it,” said Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist who discovered the insect in 2019 as she ...

Scientists discover Megachile lucifer, a new Australian bee with tiny, devil-like horns that may help it dig, pack, and ...

The female bee's upward-pointing horns could be used to access flowers, compete for resources, and defend nests, researchers ...

Solitary bee species are major pollinators of wild plants, and there are over 1,500 species in the Megachile genus alone.

A devil-horned bee discovered in Western Australia sheds light on how little we still know about native pollinators. A newly ...