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.
BABY STEALERS. Bees that usually eat carrion rip open cells in a wasp nest to take abandoned, live young. Mateus and Noll
This stingless bee, Trigona hypogea, carries off the youngsters left behind in newly abandoned wasp nests, says Fernando Noll of the University of São Paulo in Brazil.
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