"The vulture bee microbiome is enriched in acid-loving bacteria, which are novel bacteria that their relatives don’t have," says Quinn McFrederick, a UCR entomologist. "These bacteria are similar to ...

To attract the vulture bees—a.k.a. carrion bees—the researchers set up pieces of raw chicken in the forest. When the bees arrived, they not only swarmed the raw, dead flesh, but also collected bits of ...

A South American bee that ignores flowers and collects the meat from animal carcasses turns out to have an unexpected taste for live prey too. This stingless bee, Trigona hypogea, carries off the ...

Most bees happily gather nectar and pollen from flowers for food, but there are exceptions. Bees are actually wasps that adopted a vegetarian lifestyle in the dim and distant past – and vulture bees ...

While most bees feed on pollen and nectar, scientists say some bees have developed a taste for rotting flesh. Researchers have learned that a stingless, tropical bee has evolved to have an extra tooth ...