What Eats Bees In The Food Chain

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Bees are insects and insects are food to many animals. 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.

Bees are a bit like mushrooms. You can eat any mushroom once – but an expert can eat the right mushrooms and live to do it again.

Eating Bees

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I once saw a young dove that was eating chicken food that I had sprinkled outside peck at a bee. A few seconds later it fell over dead.

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

Clever birds like magpies can learn how to catch bees and scrape them on a branch to remove the sting. 

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Insects and Spiders

Many different insects and spiders will eat bees. Yellowjackets can damage hives. Praying mantids will eat bees on flowers, as will certain spiders.

Bears, humans, honeybadgers, and baboons are the most common animals in this list that will rob beehives. Various other smaller mammals can rob hives as well, but most do not make a habit of doing this.

Animals

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Modern Predators Of Beehives

As we become a more and more dominant species we are covering our planet with human technology.

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