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

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

Kit Prendergast discovered the bee while surveying a critically endangered wildflower and was drawn to the insect's unique ...

“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 ...

Only female bees from the new species have the distinctive horns, scientists said, after it was discovered in a remote part ...

A newly-discovered type of bee has been dubbed “Lucifer” because of a pair of prongs on its face. Inspiration for the name ...

Australian scientists have discovered a new native bee species with tiny horns - and given it a suitably devilish name.

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

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

The bees' name, Megachile lucifer, was inspired by the Netflix series "Lucifer," which one of the researchers was watching at ...

A CREEPY-crawly with devil horns is the latest horrifying creature to be discovered in Australia, so terrifying it’s named ...