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 missing “Turkish” bee that provoked an international row after the UK Government ordered its death is in fact British, the Natural History Museum has declared.

A These solitary bees (Megachile centuncularis) are important pollinators closely resembling honey bees but with distinctive orange undersides.They don’t appear in our gardens between August and ...

Michael Viney responds to queries and observations on nature. I watched a patchwork leaf-cutter bee (Megachile centuncularis), which had tunnelled in an old door, fly from the tunnel at least 30 ...