Carnivorous Bees or Vulture Bees / Library of the Strange

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This type of bee prefers to eat rotten meat of animals than to look for nectar in flowers.

A study by scientists at the University of California on a very strange type of bee discovered in Costa Rica recently came to light.

The so-called vulture bees, apparently make up a subspecies of insects that prefer to eat rotten meat than to look for nectar in flowers, according to the study, it is believed that the animals were pressured to evolve given the high competition in their habitat for the conquest of the precious nectar to produce honey.

The study determined that these strange bees developed microbes in their body that allow them to perfectly digest meat, even when it is in a state of decomposition, to produce honey that is just as sweet as that derived from plants. In addition, a species is visible in several of the specimens studied. of teeth that allow them to tear the flesh of the carcasses.

"These are the only bees in the world that have evolved to use non-plant food sources, which is a pretty remarkable change in eating habits," said Doug Yanega, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside, and co-author of the study. recent article.

Scavenging behavior is present by natural order in all animal species, but this mutation discovered in species as specific as bees, whose sphere of life is strictly linked to the plant world, has set off alarms in many scientists.

Vulture bees are a great mystery for the scientific world and a great challenge for those who try to verify that this mutation occurred due to climate change and the destruction of the natural habitat of bees.

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