Hi all
I don't know how far folks want to go with this, there's a lot more to this story ...

Hunting Spheciformes have also been observed by Dudek
(2005) on a roe deer carcass. Species that are not carnivorous
may suck some juice of carcasses, as we have observed in bees.
In Białowieża National Park, honeybees were observed sucking
on the carcass of a European bison (Bison bonasus). In other
parts of the world, some bee species are facultative scavengers
(Baumgartner & Roubik 1989, Noll 1997). According to Baumgartner
& Roubik (1989), bees search for salt, water, and mineral
compounds when visiting carcasses.

Gu, Xiaoying, et al. "Carcass ecology–more than just beetles." 
entomologische berichten 74.1-2 (2014): 68-74.

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