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

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 ...

The female of the species has devil-like black horns, and a taste for extremely rare pollen. But until now, this Australian ...

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

A new native bee species with tiny devil-like "horns" named Megachile (Hackeriapis) lucifer has been discovered in Western ...

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