Today I will blow your mind. 🙂
Most entomologists refer to bees as vegetarian wasps, as bees evolved from carnivorous wasps about 120 million years ago.
But did you know that there exist species of Vegetarian Wasps called Pollen Wasps - Pic 1 (Wikipedia), and Carnivorous Bees called Carrion Bees - Pic 2 (Ricardo Ayala)?
The wasps don't have pollen carrying hairs so they eat the pollen and regurgitate it at the nest.
The bees have special gut bacteria to digest meat.
@entospace Carrion bees, also known as vulture bees, make "meat honey": "a decay-resistant edible glucose product resembling honey". The details of how it's made read gruesome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulture_bee
#nativebees #vulturebees #entomology
@albertcardona I'm gonna take a hard pass on that honey, Albert... 🤢