Scientists recently identified a tropical sweat bee that’s male on its left side and female on its right side — a rare condition known as gynandromorphy Most animals are sexually dimorphic, where ...

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Megachile Lucifer was found by a researcher as she was observing a rare wildflower that grows in the Bremer Ranges in Western Australia, the BBC reported. What makes the bee unusual are the “highly ...

In January 2019, a clan of scientists and conservationists tramped through the torrid Indonesian forest in search of the Wallace's giant bee — a species that hadn't been spotted alive since 1981.

This bee isn’t just huge — it’s also the word’s largest. And this big, black wasp-like bee was “thought by some to be extinct” since it hadn’t been seen since 1981, according to a statement from the ...