Ain't bees suppose to eat honey?

[Mushroom]

Can anybody tell me why would they drink my coke and eat my ham sandwich??

[beerguy]

Poor breeding.

[emilye2]

Bees make honey, they eat nectar (or sugar water essentially) they only eat the honey if they feel their hive is threatened. They do this so they have some to save for the next hive. This is why bee keepers use smoke when checking on hives. The smoke makes the bees think there is fire nearby so they get busy eating the honey and they forget about the beekeeper and defending the hive.
There is the long answer to a short answer kind of question!! :D

[Reefdrumz]

Well.. I always thought bee's make honey, not eat it.
But the honey that those bee's are producing must taste
pretty damn good! :p

[Reefdrumz]

Damn.. I hate when i take too long typing something!!

[JumboShrimp]

hmmm coke flavored honey.... the only reason the bees drink your coke is to get the sugar thats in the drink, that way they can produce honey....

[magnum300]

Honeybees make honey from sugar but will take honey if it not protected by another hive, easier to steal it than make it.
The bees eating your sandwich are probaly actually wasps ie yellowjackets

[salty toes]

Originally posted by magnum300
Honeybees make honey from sugar but will take honey if it not protected by another hive, easier to steal it than make it.
The bees eating your sandwich are probaly actually wasps ie yellowjackets


yeah exactly, yellow jackets are carnivorous, they are vicious hunters. I have seen them raid ant nests (whats the correct term?) and carry the poor ants away, i also have pictures of some other wasps (not yellow jackets) land on a spiders web and pretend to be stuck, and when the spider lunges to get it. the wasp stings and paralizes its prey and flyes away with it.... I have seen all this in my backyard. amazing.

[Reefdrumz]

I just found 2 yellowjacket hives in front of my house. I have a hole in my concrete stairs (very small) and i saw a few fly in there.. and i found another one in a statue that i have in front of the house, pretty beefy too! I hate trying to get rid of nests... I always end up running like a little girl.

[joeychitwood]

From exactly which end of the bee does the honey exude? The answer determines whether I ever eat honey again.

[vapovick]

Originally posted by joeychitwood
From exactly which end of the bee does the honey exude? The answer determines whether I ever eat honey again.

:) oh come on... you drink milk right >?

I have some mead I started fermenting over three years ago, anyone ever try mead ?

Bees have a wonderful history, and a very complex way of communicating...

[NwG]

another cool point honey will NEVER spoil... it can dry up and look nasty but it will never rot it can't.... only if it is contaminated will it rot soo for the next ice age stock up on honey and twinkies:)
nate D

[joeychitwood]

Originally posted by vapovick
:) oh come on... you drink milk right?Are you telling me that bees have tiny breasts that secrete honey? :D

[djquestion]

Honey is essentially bee vomit.

Originally posted by joeychitwood
From exactly which end of the bee does the honey exude? The answer determines whether I ever eat honey again.

[Tahoe Ocean]

mmm.... Bee Barf! Still not as bad as some things that people eat!

[ReefRian]

Yeah, I've had mead, really like the stuff. I got some from a winery in Monterey at the wharf.

Did you know that if you see a bee on the ground looking like it is dying it probably ran out of sugar and if you put some sugar water next to it, it will drink some up and be able to fly again? It's pretty cool to watch and you know that you may have just saved its life.

Rian

[jwm2k3]

Originally posted by ReefRian
Yeah, I've had mead, really like the stuff. I got some from a winery in Monterey at the wharf.

Did you know that if you see a bee on the ground looking like it is dying it probably ran out of sugar and if you put some sugar water next to it, it will drink some up and be able to fly again? It's pretty cool to watch and you know that you may have just saved its life.

Rian


I would just step on it....

[anabolic_1]

Someone nailed it, those are yellow jackets eating your sandwich and washing it down with your coke. I have seen them land in a can of beer, fall in and when someone drank out of it the had the YJ in their mouth, they are nasty little buggers (pun intended) As for the person who found 2 nests, you need a can of the wasp and hornet spray that shoots 20 some feet, BUT, you need to spray them AFTER DARK, this is when all the field bees will be back at the nest and you will be left with only one or 2 stray bees that did not make it back to the hive the night before. If you spray during the day, 1/2 the hive that is in the feild looking for food will be trying to enter the killed nest, and they will NOT be happy.
GL
Mike.