Beetles mummified by stingless bees

摘要

It is not so much eternal life, more a case of instant death. Parasitic beetles that invade the hive of certain stingless bees end up entombed forever in resin.rn"They're stopped in their tracks, and they dehydrate and shrivel up like a mummy," says Mark Greco of the Swiss Bee Research Centre in Berne, who discovered this behaviour in a species of Australian stingless bee, Trigona carbonaria, living in the wild.