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.

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. 

Eating Bees

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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.

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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