Today's draw from the Strange Animals #AdventCalendar: vampire bats, and vulture bees. The latter I did NOT know about. Wow. Fascinating.
Help I'm way down the rabbit hole reading about vulture bees...
@TarkabarkaHolgy please share the knowledge!
They sound like the type of insect I would make a podcast episode about :
@StrepsipZerg so far I have learned they eat meat from dead animals by entering their skull through the eye socket. And then they create protein rich jelly from it. (Not honey.) :D
@TarkabarkaHolgy oh yep I remember reading about them! I didn't remember that was their vernacular name but that tracks.
I bet they have some reeeaaallyyy cool microbiomes to go with that food habit...
@StrepsipZerg I would totally listen to a podcast episode about them.
@TarkabarkaHolgy I'm adding it to my work file
I just need to find a nice paper to adapt
@TarkabarkaHolgy yeeee I found it eheh
It's going to make a nice episode with a focus on more evo-eco aspects of entomology