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When bees get a taste for dead things – UC Riverside

Typically, bees don’t eat meat. However, a species of stingless ‘vulture’ bee in the tropics has evolved the ability to do so,…

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A little-known species of tropical bee has evolved an extra tooth for biting flesh and a gut that more closely resembles that of vultures rather than other bees. 
Vulture bees in Costa Rica dining on raw chicken bait. (Quinn McFrederick/UCR)
Typically,…

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