Non-honey bees

Have you heard of that recently published report of honeybees stealing pollen directly from scopa of wild bee species? Although competition between honeybee and wild bees is an often studied and debated topic, there are only few observations of direct agressive interactions. What is interesting, the victims of theft seem indifferent to what is happening to them, and only rarely try to resist in any way.

In the abovementioned paper (in German) you can also can find citations of the older papers describing pollen theft.

And by the way, this cartoon was inspired by a viral movie from Italy. I’m curious if you also saw it, or was it not as much viral as I thought?