The Bees That Eat Corpses

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Bees are quite beneficial little critters: pollinating flowers, making honey, and also...helping corpses decompose.

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Sources:
https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.02317-21
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-15...

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