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 ...

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 ...

Megachile pluto, commonly called "Wallace‘s giant bee," is the world‘s largest bee, and perhaps its most elusive. From 1981 to 2018 there were no reported sightings of it.

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 ...

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 ...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species lists the bee Megachile pluto as “vulnerable”, meaning that while its numbers are relatively solid, the remoteness of its population makes it hard to study.