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

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 ...

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 ...

A few years ago, wild bee ecologist Kit Prendergast was searching for pollinators of an endangered wildflower when she spotted a strange bee. “I discovered the species while surveying a rare plant in ...

Scientists have found a new native bee that they’ve dubbed the Lucifer bee. Megachile Lucifer was found by a researcher as ...

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

The newly-discovered bee species belongs to the genus Megachile and is a visitor to a critically endangered flowering plant ...