Bee Aware Of These Honey Bee Predators
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Bees also store honey, and a beehive contains a lot of brood. When we ask what eats bees in the food chain, there is quite a long list of animals.
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Most animals will eat a bee once by mistake – in some cases, this will kill the animal, in other cases, it will teach the animal a lesson.
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A few seconds later it fell over dead. Clearly, it had no idea what it was eating, and it never learned a lesson.
Animals That Eat Bees By Accident
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To eat a bee on purpose, you have to be clever, thick-skinned, or both.
Animals That Eat Bees On Purpose
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Birds
In Africa and Asia drongo birds are highly intelligent birds that will literally hawk a bee on the wing
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Insects and Spiders
Sometimes bees can get caught in spider webs, with golden orb spiders being particularly talented at hunting bees this way.
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As far as honeybee predators go, the human is by far the worst.
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Modern Predators Of Beehives
There are two major predators that we have introduced to the world, and these predators can really damage beehives.
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The beekeeper blamed pesticides, but when I showed him the tarmac, and we looked on the side of the road there were millions of dead bees.
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