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Bears eating bee nests
« on: July 05, 2023, 11:32:39 AM »
Thought this video was interesting.
Always find the nests tore up.
But I never get to see them rip it apart.



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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2023, 11:35:14 AM »
We have seen the underground nests tore up a lot and also recovered one or two over the years that were still covered in the bees from doing so.
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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2023, 11:59:43 AM »
Same.  Seen lots of em tore up out of the ground but never caught em in the act.

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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #3 on: August 10, 2023, 12:31:39 PM »
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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #4 on: August 10, 2023, 12:42:10 PM »
Dang, that just hurts to watch!
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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #5 on: August 10, 2023, 08:34:41 PM »
Funny thing I learned was that the bears aren’t usually after the honey. They’re after the bee larvae.
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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #6 on: August 10, 2023, 08:45:31 PM »
Hope they have epipens

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Re: Bears eating bee nests
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2023, 05:49:29 PM »
Funny thing I learned was that the bears aren’t usually after the honey. They’re after the bee larvae.

Around st Helen's area one year elk hunting, we were seeing bear scat everywhere that hadn't the weirdest yellow and black objects in it my dad was convinced it wasn't bear, than we started see ground hornet/wasp nests everywhere that look like they had been cleaned out.. story I heard from an old timer we ran into was exactly what u were saying, there going after the larvea, he claimed the didn't really care about the bees to much, but in a hurry would bail from the wasps would end up swelling a bunch of wasps whole as there swallowing the larvae up.. I'm talking about 50 different piles of scat over a week. Pretty crazy for aure

 


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