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<blockquote data-quote="Maggie" data-source="post: 12323" data-attributes="member: 71"><p>Hi Piedpiper</p><p></p><p>I am really interested in your post, and subsequent posts by others. Would you or someone else please post a photo or video of sparrows eating bees. Were the bees workers or drones, and if the latter were they being evicted from the hive?</p><p></p><p>With beekeeping you are always learning new stuff. However, I have never seen sparrows eat live bees, am intrigued. To my mind sparrows have a small beek, and it does surprise me that they can eat a reasonable sized live insect with stinging ability. If each sparrow as you note was eating 8 live bees per minute that equates to 480 bees per hour per sparrow.</p><p></p><p>I have often seen birds of numerous species eating dead bees - they love dead bees!</p><p></p><p>Re the wasps. Wasps are aggressive predators with powerful flying ability, taking back to their nest protein at this time of the year to feed their larvae.</p><p></p><p>You don't mention whether you only had two hives. I suggest you put your remaining hive honey stores from the two mentioned hives in a bee proof shed before every bee in Mosgiel robs them. I also suggest you contact the Dunedin Beekeepers Club who have great support from hobbyists, commercial operators, scientists and beekeeping suppliers. <a href="https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/empowering-and-bee-ing-part-of-a-strong-afb-free-dunedin-community" target="_blank">Empowering and Bee-Ing Part of a Strong, AFB Free, Dunedin Community</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Maggie, post: 12323, member: 71"] Hi Piedpiper I am really interested in your post, and subsequent posts by others. Would you or someone else please post a photo or video of sparrows eating bees. Were the bees workers or drones, and if the latter were they being evicted from the hive? With beekeeping you are always learning new stuff. However, I have never seen sparrows eat live bees, am intrigued. To my mind sparrows have a small beek, and it does surprise me that they can eat a reasonable sized live insect with stinging ability. If each sparrow as you note was eating 8 live bees per minute that equates to 480 bees per hour per sparrow. I have often seen birds of numerous species eating dead bees - they love dead bees! Re the wasps. Wasps are aggressive predators with powerful flying ability, taking back to their nest protein at this time of the year to feed their larvae. You don't mention whether you only had two hives. I suggest you put your remaining hive honey stores from the two mentioned hives in a bee proof shed before every bee in Mosgiel robs them. I also suggest you contact the Dunedin Beekeepers Club who have great support from hobbyists, commercial operators, scientists and beekeeping suppliers. [URL='https://www.apiaristsadvocate.com/post/empowering-and-bee-ing-part-of-a-strong-afb-free-dunedin-community']Empowering and Bee-Ing Part of a Strong, AFB Free, Dunedin Community[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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