“…Previous evidence suggests necrophagy by polistine wasps in Central and South America, with the swarm‐founding genera Polybia , Agelaia , Angiopolybia , Brachygastra , Parachartergus , Protonectarina and Synoeca feeding on a wide range of wild ‘carrion’ from large insects to birds, reptiles, and mammals, to agricultural waste such as poultry, pigs and rats, and tuna fish baits laid out for ants (O'Donnell, 1995; Gomes et al ., 2007; Somavilla, Linard & Rafael, 2019). More recently, Apoica and Polybia have been reported scavenging on fresh and decaying pig carcasses under natural conditions in Brazil (Simões et al ., 2013); six species of Epiponines in Brazilian rainforest were detected using carrion traps (Silveira et al ., 2005) and 10 species were collected from carcasses of rats in similar environments (Somavilla et al ., 2019), with different species compositions on fresh and decaying cadavers; interestingly, wasps visiting the heavily decomposed cadavers were also observed preying on the fly eggs and larvae of Sarcophagidae and Calliphoridae (typically the first flies to colonise such carcasses) that were present. Finally, Vespula species are reported to scavenge on honey bee corpses (Pusceddu et al ., 2018).…”