{"id":3601,"date":"2026-08-25T20:12:57","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:12:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/?p=3601"},"modified":"2026-08-25T20:12:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T20:12:57","slug":"not-only-flowers-necrophagy-and-coprophagy-in-bumble-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/not-only-flowers-necrophagy-and-coprophagy-in-bumble-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"No solo flores: necrofagia y coprofagia en abejorros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Las abejas son conocidas por alimentarse de flores y recolectar n\u00e9ctar y polen. Sin embargo, las abejas sociales tambi\u00e9n pueden utilizar recursos no florales como fruta podrida, hongos y exudados, as\u00ed como heces y carro\u00f1a, como se ha documentado especialmente entre las abejas sin aguij\u00f3n.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ahora, una nota cient\u00edfica publicada en Apidologie informa, por primera vez, de la necrofagia y la coprofagia en abejorros en Sudam\u00e9rica. En Ecuador, ejemplares de&nbsp;<em>Bombus funebris&nbsp;<\/em>se ha observado aliment\u00e1ndose del cad\u00e1ver seco de ganado y de heces de c\u00f3ndor andino. Un comportamiento similar se ha registrado en algunas especies de Bombus en Europa, pero nunca antes en las Am\u00e9ricas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Seg\u00fan los investigadores, el uso de recursos no florales tambi\u00e9n puede deberse a la falta de fuentes de polen disponibles. Ser\u00eda valiosa una mayor investigaci\u00f3n para estudiar el comportamiento alimentario de esta especie en este entorno en particular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ir al art\u00edculo cient\u00edfico <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s13592-026-01296-y\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">aqu\u00ed<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Una nota cient\u00edfica publicada en Apidologie informa, por primera vez, de la necrofagia y la coprofagia en abejorros en Sudam\u00e9rica. En Ecuador, se han observado ejemplares de Bombus funebris buscando alimento en el cad\u00e1ver seco de ganado y en heces de c\u00f3ndor andino. Se ha informado de un comportamiento similar en algunas especies de Bombus en Europa, pero nunca antes en las Am\u00e9ricas.<br \/>\nSeg\u00fan los investigadores, el uso de recursos no florales tambi\u00e9n puede deberse a la falta de fuentes de polen disponibles. Ser\u00eda valiosa una mayor investigaci\u00f3n para estudiar el comportamiento alimentario de esta especie en este entorno en particular.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.3 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A scientific note published in Apidologie reports, for the first time, necrophagy and coprophagy in bumble bees in South America. In Ecuador, specimens of Bombus funebris have been observed foraging on the dried carcass of cattle and on Andean condor feces. 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Further research would be valuable to investigate the feeding behaviour of this species in this particular environment.","twitter:creator":"@apimondia","twitter:image":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/apimondia-logo-small-1.webp"},"aioseo_meta_data":{"post_id":"3601","title":null,"description":null,"keywords":null,"keyphrases":{"focus":{"keyphrase":"","score":0,"analysis":{"keyphraseInTitle":{"score":0,"maxScore":9,"error":1}}},"additional":[]},"primary_term":null,"canonical_url":null,"og_title":null,"og_description":null,"og_object_type":"default","og_image_type":"featured","og_image_url":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Bombus-funebris-by-Peterwchen-Wikipedia.jpg","og_image_width":"1600","og_image_height":"836","og_image_custom_url":null,"og_image_custom_fields":null,"og_video":"","og_custom_url":null,"og_article_section":null,"og_article_tags":null,"twitter_use_og":false,"twitter_card":"default","twitter_image_type":"default","twitter_image_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_url":null,"twitter_image_custom_fields":null,"twitter_title":null,"twitter_description":null,"schema":{"blockGraphs":[],"customGraphs":[],"default":{"data":{"Article":[],"Course":[],"Dataset":[],"FAQPage":[],"Movie":[],"Person":[],"Product":[],"ProductReview":[],"Car":[],"Recipe":[],"Service":[],"SoftwareApplication":[],"WebPage":[]},"graphName":"BlogPosting","isEnabled":true},"graphs":[]},"schema_type":"default","schema_type_options":null,"pillar_content":false,"robots_default":true,"robots_noindex":false,"robots_noarchive":false,"robots_nosnippet":false,"robots_nofollow":false,"robots_noimageindex":false,"robots_noodp":false,"robots_notranslate":false,"robots_max_snippet":"-1","robots_max_videopreview":"-1","robots_max_imagepreview":"large","priority":null,"frequency":"default","local_seo":null,"breadcrumb_settings":null,"limit_modified_date":false,"ai":{"faqs":[],"keyPoints":[],"schemas":[],"titles":[],"descriptions":[],"socialPosts":{"email":{"subject":"","preview":"","content":""},"linkedin":[],"twitter":[],"facebook":[],"instagram":[]}},"created":"2026-08-25 20:12:45","updated":"2026-08-26 00:19:26","seo_analyzer_scan_date":null,"focus_keyword":null,"additional_keywords":null,"truseo_locale":null},"aioseo_breadcrumb":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/category\/uncategorized\/\" title=\"Highlights\">Highlights<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\u00bb<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tNot Only Flowers: Necrophagy and Coprophagy in Bumble Bees\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>","aioseo_breadcrumb_json":[{"label":"Home","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/"},{"label":"Highlights","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/category\/uncategorized\/"},{"label":"Not Only Flowers: Necrophagy and Coprophagy in Bumble Bees","link":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/not-only-flowers-necrophagy-and-coprophagy-in-bumble-bees\/"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3601\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apimondia.org\/esp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}