College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences

Meat-eating bees made the news in late 2021, after a study examined the unique gut microbiomes of these unusual species. Trigona hypogea, Trigona necrophaga, and Trigona crassipes are the only three known bee species in the world that feed exclusively on carrion. https://entomologytoday.org/2022/01/19/vulture-bees-gut-microbiomes/

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