FAQs What A Honey Bee Eats - Answered by An Expert

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What does a honey bee eat? Pollen, nectar, fungus spores, cow food, flour, brood, fruit, rubbish, anal secretions of insects other weird things!

Nectar, pollen, honey and a range of other unusual things we cover in this post.

What does a honey bee eat?

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Technically bees are vegetarians and eat pollen. 

do bees eat other insects?

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do bees eat other insects?

Rules are to be broken and they sometimes eat a bit of insect flesh.

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do bees eat their own honey?

Yes, that is why bees make honey. The store it to eat when they need energy. 

They make honey for themselves - bees do not make honey for ut.

do bees eat their own honey?

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Do honey bees eat fruit?

Yes - they will nibble at ripe sugar rich fruits such as grapes and dates sucking the fruit juice out.

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Bees eat pollen, nectar, and honey. They also will eat sugar solutions that they extract from fruit and insects, and they can get creative in terms of eating.

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