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

“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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

As Australian Pollinator Week (8–16 November) gets underway, new research has found that many Australians have poor awareness ...