The female of the species has devil-like black horns, and a taste for extremely rare pollen. But until now, this Australian ...
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This Newly Discovered ‘Lucifer’ Bee From Australia Was Named After Its Devil-Like Horns
“The taxonomist who describes a new species gets to name it,” Prendergast tells Jennifer Hassan at the Washington Post. After ...
As Australian Pollinator Week (8–16 November) gets underway, new research has found that many Australians have poor awareness ...
The female bee's upward-pointing horns could be used to access flowers, compete for resources, and defend nests, researchers ...
The bees' name, Megachile lucifer, was inspired by the Netflix series "Lucifer," which one of the researchers was watching at ...
Scientists discover Megachile lucifer, a new Australian bee with tiny, devil-like horns that may help it dig, pack, and ...
Kit Prendergast discovered the bee while surveying a critically endangered wildflower and was drawn to the insect's unique ...
The "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia. DNA testing ...
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