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A scientist has a new species of bee in Australia. The bee tiny horns on its head. The scientist is bee ecologist Dr Kit Prendergast. She the bee the Latin name Megachile lucifer. "Lucifer" another name for the Devil. Dr Prendergast the bee while she was doing a survey of an endangered wildflower in the city of Perth, Western Australia. She the "Perth Now" news agency that she gave the bee its name because of its horns. She said: "These horns very distinct and devilish. I wanted to it a devil-like name and so I on Lucifer." She added: "Lucifer means 'light bringer' in Latin. I want to light to issues around the lack of conservation of native bees."

Australia is home to more than 2,000 species of native bees. The newly-described bee one of hundreds in the country that have not been . Dr Prendergast said: "[There are] many native bees that have in Australia. We don't even the names of them. They haven't described. We don't know their distribution or where they ." The Lucifer bee is "the first new member of this bee group to described in more than 20 years". She that there is a lot of "life we still have to ". Prendergast is worried that the endangered wildflower and the new bee "could at risk from habitat disturbance and other threatening processes like climate change".