Not All Bees Are Vegetarians: Some Eat Meat

For years we've been taught that wasps are carnivores while bees (which evolved from wasps), are vegetarians. Don't bees forage only for pollen and nectar (as well as water and propolis)? Not always so. Some bees are meat-eaters or "bee vultures," says evolutionary biologist Quinn McFrederick of UC Riverside. You'll want to hear McFrederick speak on "The Weird World of Pathogens, Microbes, and Meat-Eating Bees" at his Jan. 18 seminar hosted by the UC Davis Department of Entomology and...