Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The nicknamed "Lucifer" bee, or Megachile lucifer, was discovered 2019 in the Goldfields region of western Australia, according to ...

Stingless bees in the Brisbane, Australia area are inciting turf wars, which have already resulted in numerous drone fatalities and hive takeovers. According to a study in the American Naturalist ...

Scientists surveying an endangered wildflower in Australia chanced upon a unique creature instead – a new bee species they decided to name “Lucifer” because of its tiny devil-like “horns”. The bee, ...

Australian scientists are gluing tiny sensors onto thousands of honey bees to track their movements in a trial aimed at halting the spread of diseases that have wiped out populations in the northern ...

KANGAROO ISLAND, Australia — Bees swarm around Peter Davis as he unloads his precious, buzzing cargo into their new home in a part of South Australia’s Kangaroo Island that was not devastated by ...

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Four swarms of Asian bees found in Cairns, Australia have been cleared of carrying the dreaded Varroa destructor mite, but the intruders themselves could pose the beginning of a serious threat to ...

A rare Australian native bee was identified again in the wild after nearly 100 years. (Courtesy of James Dorey Photography / Flinders University) A field researcher identified the bee, which faces new ...

Australia is exterminating tens of millions of bees in a bid to ward off a varroa mite plague. At least 600 hives containing 30,000 bees each have been destroyed, The New York Times reported. Varroa ...

Nigel Andrew receives funding from the Australian Research Council, NSW Environmental Trust, Grains Research Development Corporation (GRDC), and the NeCTAR Climate Change consortium. Nigel is ...