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

“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 ...

Bees usually spend a lot of time flying from flower so you would never expect them to nest in the ground. Here are 6 types ...

The bees were split into two groups. For the first one, a short flash was the “dot” in Morse code, and it was associated with ...

Wasps and mantises are both formidable foes in the animal kingdom. But when it comes to attacking one another, only one ...

To the casual observer, it's nothing more than an abandoned golf course. But the land, along with other weedy, minimally ...

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

Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have shown for the first time that an insect – the bumblebee Bombus terrestris ...

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