Summary of The Bees That Eat Corpses

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In this video, beekeepers discuss how vulture bees, which are specialized for eating carrion, evolved from pollen-eating ancestors. The authors of a 2021 study found that while most of the microbes present in the gut of pollen-eating bees remain, vulture bees have new microbes that are strictly for meat eating. This suggests that the microbes evolved to adapt to the carrion diet as the bees did.

• 00:00:00 In this video, beekeepers discuss how vulture bees, which are specialized for eating carrion, evolved from pollen-eating ancestors. The authors of a 2021 study found that while most of the microbes present in the gut of pollen-eating bees remain, vulture bees have new microbes that are strictly for meat eating. This suggests that the microbes evolved to adapt to the carrion diet as the bees did.