bats,birds,bees

Plumber · Joined: 15 Mar 2005 Posts: 16 Location: Sherman,TEXAS

is there anyone out there that could tell me if martins or bats will eat or in anyway hurt my honey bees? thanks plumber

dragonfly · Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2005 9:48 pm Post subject:

THey won't appreciably hurt your bee numbers, or at least I've never seen that or read it anywhere. Remember, bees have a fairly short life span, and there are thousands and thousands of bees in a hive. I've never seen the local martins using my bees for food. In fact, orb spiders probably kill more of my bees than other predators.

kbrew · Joined: 17 Mar 2003 Posts: 358 Location: Midlothian,TEXAS

I would think that bees are not on the menu of either bats or martins. Most of their diet seems to come from high-flying insects such as moths. Bees tend to fly close to the ground looking for pollen.