Megachile lucifer is an unusual bee from Australia — black, sleek, and with tiny devil-like horns. It’s named after the ...

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

A new bee, discovered in Western Australia, has been announced this week – reinforcing our status as home of the creepiest ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

The "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia. DNA testing ...