Like most bees, this leaf-cutting bee, Megachile brevis, is solitary, with each female building her own nest cells out of bits of leaves and petals without the help of a worker caste.These bees earn ...

A new species of leafcutter bee, Megachile chomskyi, is described from Texas, United States. While many other genera within the family chew leaves or petals to build their nests, certain species ...

The world's biggest bee, which has been lost to science for almost 40 years, has been rediscovered in the wild. The species, Megachile pluto, also known as Wallace's giant bee, is around four ...

The world’s largest bee—the Wallace’s giant bee or Megachile pluto—has been rediscovered, minding its own beeswax on Indonesian’s North Moluccas islands.

The Wallace's giant bee — Megachile pluto — towers over European honeybees and has only been observed only a handful of times since it was discovered in the 1850s by British naturalist Alfred ...