The Vulture bees are a small group of three that are closely related to the American stingless bee. These three species of Vulture bees are the only know bees not to relay on plant products as their food source. Instead, these bees feed on rotting meat, hence the name "vulture" bees. This unusual bee behaviour was not discovered until 1982, which is nearly two centuries after these bees were first classified.
The Vulture bees are a small group of three that are closely related to the American stingless bee. These three species of Vulture bees are the only know bees not to relay on plant products as their food source. Instead, these bees feed on rotting meat, hence the name "vulture" bees. This unusual bee behaviour was not discovered until 1982, which is nearly two centuries after these bees were first classified. The three species are: Trigona Crassipes (1793) Trigona Hypogea (1902) Trigona Nercrophaga (1991) The Vulture bees are attracted to rotting carcasses, and decaying flesh, as opposed to colourful flowers and sweet nectar. Like most adult bees, the vulture bees collects food to that back the nest, but rather than visit flowers like most bee species, Vulture bees gather meat. They are necrophages, (a word that means an organism that eats dead animal carcasses), and use the meat for the protein that these bees need to survive. Vulture bees, much like maggots, usually enter the carcass through the eyes. They will then root around inside gathering the meat suitable for their needs. The vulture bees salivates on the rotting flesh and then sucks it up storing it special stomach compartment until it has flow back to the nest. When it returns home, this meat is transferred to another Vulture bee. This bee's job is to mix the animal flesh with a digestive fluid to break it down into an edible substance. This substance is then placed into pot-like containers within the nest until it is time to feed the immature bees.
I put a bone out for my dog and a bee landed on the bone and started digging at the meat eventually it flew away with meat in its mouth then another bee or wasp came along and did the same.They took it in turns.
it was very interesting to watch.
well there different types of bees don’t eat cheese and do, there the honey bees, they love cheese with honey but hornets don’t like cheese.
no bees do not eat cheese i have killed a hive
Yes - at least sometimes.
My German Shepherd loved to catch and eat bees and wasps.
Bees don't like meat they only sting if threatened
Bees eat honey
No, hornets do for feeding their grubs.
yes
Humans and other animals
no
that would be bees
mostly bees
Burrowing bees eat pollen and nectar, just like any other kind of bees.
Not normally! A bees colouration is a warning to other animals that it is venomous, so the vast majority of animals leave them alone.
Not as such. Bees do eat pollen grains, but otherwise they live on honey and nectar.
No, bees are not carnivorous and do not eat meat. They only eat nectar, honey and sugary water. There is a species of predatory wasp that will occasionally try to eat dead animals called Yellow Jacket Wasps. Wasps are not bees.
They behave like any animals.
So-called killer bees, more properly called Africanized honey bees, eat the same as any other honey bee: pollen and nectar.
Most animals eat newly born bees but a small migoraty of them die from the sting on the back of their tail the most common animal to eat a bee is called a samlietxhies a creature only found in rainforests.
well bees eat polen so you would put the flower then the bee then a brid or any other kind of animal really a lot of things eat bees