#vulture bees

[rubysfiction]

writing a story about an insect with this much misinformation all over the internet is so tedious bc i have to sift through so much bullshit to make an actually believable story

[bleihnmicer]

... 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 ... 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯

𝘚𝘩𝘦'𝘴... 𝘣𝘦𝘢𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘧𝘶𝘭

𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘢𝘱𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘦𝘯!...

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

For those of you who asked: Though they feed on flesh, the researchers said that the vulture bees' honey is still sweet and edible.

They keep the honey in a separate chamber in the hive, away from the rotten meat.

Meat-eating vulture bees have evolved special gut bacteria to feast on flesh | CNN

The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but certain species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses f

[pineconnie]

there’s bees that eat meat

[sleepy-bebby]

Vulture bees, bees that collect meat instead of pollen.

Vulture bees, a.k.a carrion bees a.k.a meat-eating bees, are stingless bees that feed on rotting meat of deceased animals. They have a special tooth used to rip the flesh off the corpse of the animal. Instead of regular honey produced from nectar, they produce “meat honey” which is a honey-like substance made from protein-rich secretions derived from the bees' diet, carrion. Vulture bees, like maggots, usually enter the carcass through the eye and then root around, consuming the rotting meat to take back to the hive. This meat is then regurgitated and turn into the substance that will be use to feed the hives’s immature bees (babees, haha, geddit?). The flavor of this “meat honey” is described as intense, smokey, and salty, or uniquely sweet.

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[mindblowingscience]

'Vulture Bees' Have Developed a Taste For Rotting Flesh - And Scientists Are Stumped

"The weird things in the world are where a lot of interesting discoveries can be found," Quinn McFrederick, an entomologist at UCR who led the research, said in a press release. "There's a lot of insight there into the outcomes of natural selection."

A group of scientists biked around Costa Rica's tropical forests, hanging chunks of raw chicken from the trees, in April 2019. They were trying to catch a rare insect: carrion-eating bees.

Slowly, over the next five days, large bees with long, dangling legs flocked to the bait. They crawled over the folds of raw chicken, using special teeth to slice off bits of meat. They gathered the flesh in little baskets on their hind legs, where other bees collect pollen, or swallowed the meat to store in their stomachs.

The bees were preparing to carry the chicken back to their hives, where they would enclose the meat chunks in pods, leave them there for two weeks, then feed them to their babies. Scientists aren't sure what happens inside the pods during those two weeks, or how it affects the meat. The adults don't need to eat protein. They survive on nectar.

The bees with leg baskets still collect pollen for their babies, too. But three species – out of more than 20,000 known bee species – feed their larvae an entirely carrion-based diet. They're called "vulture bees."

Continue Reading.

[mooseisnotmoose]

Vulture Bee Gender!

A Gender related to Vulture Bees, or bees that feed on carrion in order to create their honey! This gender can feel rotten and sweet at the same time, or like using something dead or rotting to make something sweet and delicious :)

Coined by Me :)

[mosscaller]

Vulture bees feed on rotting meat instead of nectar, and yes, their honey - called meat honey - is edible. This is what their hive looks like.

Sauce: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee