Some species of bees feed on human tears. Even your tears They can keep it in their ass. Sounds scary, right?

Other animals may also exhibit this behavior on other animals. Let’s find out the reason why bees drink our tears by explaining why.

‘Lachryphagia’ means that an animal drinks the tears of another animal.

There are many reasons for this interesting situation. For example, some butterflies suck the tears of birds to feed themselves. According to one theory, butterflies do this for proteins in tears It might do it.

Cockroaches, as well as some species of butterflies, can suck the tears of animals such as large lizards. So what they need phosphorus, sodium and nitrogen They can have it.

Let’s talk about bees.

There are three species of bees known to have evolved to drink human tears. They can benefit from our tears, which contain 200 times more protein than our sweat. These tear-feeding bees, Benefits other bees get from pollen gets it from lachryphagia.

By letting bees (which are not stinging species) drink their tears, researchers discovered that bees not only drink their tears, but also They store the liquid in their butts He saw it too. It is not yet known why they evolved to suck tears.

Lacryphagia and why animals exhibit this interesting behavior We still have a lot to learn about it, but what we know so far is interesting enough!

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