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

“I was super excited to find it,” said Kit Prendergast, a native bee scientist who discovered the insect in 2019 as she ...

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 ...

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

If you’ve ever been stung by a bee, you could be forgiven for shouting that the infernal beast must have been sent by the ...

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