Patchy blog this week. Some busy days, and one day out sick, and I've not quite been caught up enough today to spare the attention.
Please enjoy this quote about carnivorous vulture bees via The Whippet, which is a fabulous and interesting newsletter to which you should subscribe.
Via The Whippet 163:
Most bees have saddle bag–like structures on their legs for carrying pollen, but vulture bees have much smaller leg baskets, which they use for carrying meat back to their hives. ("They had little chicken baskets,” said Quinn McFrederick, a UCR entomologist.") To gather their hauls, vulture bees have a unique set of teeth they use to slice bits of meat. Once in the hive, the vulture bees store the meat chunks in small wax pots, leave them there for two weeks to cure, and then feed it to their larvae.