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

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

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

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

Kit Prendergast discovered the bee while surveying a critically endangered wildflower and was drawn to the insect's unique ...

A new species of bee has been identified in Australia, according to a new study. Megachile lucifer was named for its distinct ...

In honeybee hives, a surprising phenomenon regularly occurs: worker bees can turn against their own queen to replace her when they deem her too weak. This practice, called supersedure, plays a ...

“We wanted to find out if bumblebees could learn the difference between […] different durations” of flashing lights, ...