Sometimes it takes a village to raise a child. Or for one 10-year-old in Northern California, a colony of bees.

Kit Prendergast named the female bee Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer, a nod to her favourite Netflix show, because of the ...

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

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

Scientists discovered a new species of bee with "demon-like" devil horns, earning it the name "Megachile lucifer." ...

In 2019, researcher Kit Prendergast was surveying the insects visiting an incredibly rare plant in the Bremer Ranges of ...

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

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

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

A striking new bee species with tiny devil-like horns has been discovered in Western Australia’s Goldfields, offering fresh ...

A devilish new bee with unique horns has been discovered in Australia’s endangered wildflower habitat, stunning scientists.

Now, the discovery of a new species of the pied insect has added more evidence of their demonic nature, being as it is named ...