
Do birds eat your bees? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2017年1月28日 · Several birds eat bees: wrens, flycatchers, phoebes, and many more. Bottom line is daily, normal mortality is more than the birds will eat. Of course if they catch a queen on her mating flight, that's a big impact. I don't worry about birds eating bees. Dragon flies catch more bees in my area than birds.
What birds eat honeybees? - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2014年2月5日 · If these birds eat a few bees - or even lots of bees, so what? They are otherwise essential to the ecosystems of North America and the US, because they eat mostly other things, which is critical to the overall environmental balance.
Bees "eating" bird seed - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2009年2月11日 · I received a phone call from a neighbor this afternoon about bees going after the seed in his bird feeder. I knew of no explanation but with a web search I found one comment on a gardeing site that says the bees think the dust on the seed (from gathering, milling, packaging, & …
Split hive swarmed - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2011年5月16日 · My yard is on my farm and we do have bee eating birds that take some bees pretty much every day while they are raising young. Drones and queens make bigger targets.
Birds at bee hives - Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2022年1月19日 · Guys I'm having a lot of birds near my bee hives... Even I was using stones, dolls, and some reflecting materials like glass, disks etc,. But the birds are more and eating my bees daily... how to rescue my bees from birds near my bee hives😢.... below I have added the pic of the birds that are...
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2014年5月16日 · It is illegal to kill cardinals. Just sayin... "The northern cardinal is the official state bird of several states besides Ohio -- Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virg
bees eating algae in birdbath | Beesource Beekeeping Forums
2015年8月13日 · Honeybees seem to be eating a pond scum or algae that has formed in a birdbath. They ate in a line around the top of the bowl, then started eating patches of it. There are at least a dozen bees at a time eating this stuff. Are …
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2014年5月15日 · I was just being nice hoping someone could give me an intelligent alternative to destroying the bird, but one way or another the bee eating is going to stop. Instead of trying to be so cute with the answers how about actually trying to help with a real solution. A friend and bee keeper actually came up with what I hope will be a workable solution.
What is your system for providing Drones in your mating yards?
2012年8月25日 · The mating yards that are further away from your drone mother colonies is those the ones with low % turn out. I seeing lower % turn out whith the more mating nuc's you keep in one place and there is plenty of drones in the same yard and the outer drone mother yard I think because in the increase of new activity it's more of a food plot for birds and other bee eating insect's. I usually set my ...
Bees in my bird feeder (strange behavior?) - Beesource …
2011年3月5日 · I have the same problem with my bird feeders. For the past 2 weeks bee's have been swarming all my feeders. Not hundreds but thousands, I have 5 big feeders & humming bird feeders but they are bothering the hummingbird feeders. They actually empty the feeders on the ground, and then get in it there. I live on a mountain, away from towns and I have been getting seed for the birds during the ...