"Vulture bees" feed their larvae rotting meat instead of relying on pollen like other bees. Scientists hung raw chicken in Costa Rica and watched vulture bees fill their leg pouches and stomachs with ...

A few species of tropical bees, known as vulture bees, survive by eating carrion. Their guts contain acid-loving bacteria that enable the bees to digest rotting meat. Bees’ sensory experience of ...

The vast majority of bees feed on pollen and nectar, but some species have evolved to feast on meat, substituting dead animal carcasses for flower meadows. Vulture bees in Costa Rica have guts ...

Upon hatching, their larvae stab and kill the host bees’ eggs or young larvae with their ice-tong-like jaws. A few kinds, the “vulture bees” from Panama and Brazil, make their living by ...