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Tags: A US scientific team travelled to Costa Rica and discovered unique gut microbes allowing bees to digest dead animals’ meat instead of flower nectar, According to the scientists the unexpected change in the insects’ food preferences might be explained by “intense competition for nectar", Some of them produce blister-causing secretions that might cause painful sores, Some tropical bees have recently turned into vultures - a new study has claimed, Some tropical bees started choosing raw meat over nectar - rt.com, The entomologists analyzed and compared the microbiomes of vulture stingless bees with microbiomes of those of their relatives who feed both on meat and flowers, The researchers noted that though vulture bees can’t sting - many of them are “Thoroughly Unpleasant", The scientific team has published the study in the American Society of Microbiologists journal mBio and plans to continue research
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