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

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