30 Nov 2021

Species of bee evolves to eat meat

From Morning Report, 8:53 am on 30 November 2021

A species of tropical bees has evolved an extra tooth for biting flesh.

That's not all, these bees from Costa Rica have also developed a gut that closely resembles that of vultures.

This makes them the only bees in the world that have evolved to consume food sources that are not plant based.

Laura Figueroa recently studied these radical meat-eating bees.

She spoke to Corin Dann from Massachusetts.