Most bees happily gather nectar and pollen from flowers for food, but there are exceptions. Bees are actually wasps that adopted a vegetarian lifestyle in the dim and distant past – and vulture bees ...

One of the more fascinating and beautiful families of birds in Africa is one we don’t see in the Western Hemisphere, Meropidae, the family of Bee-eaters. The name Meropidae is derived from Merops, ...

Carrion-eater gut bacteria help vulture bees ditch nectar for meat By David Szondy November 24, 2021 A vulture bee, which has been found to have a microbiome distinctly different from other bees ...