What eats honey bees?

Answer 1

Bees eat honey.

Bees ingest the nectar of plants and flowers only to regurgitate it (after it has mixed with enzymes in the bees stomach) as honey.

The honey is placed into cells and capped with wax. In order for bees to survive the winter they have to have sufficient honey stored in the hive, because that is their food. Bees will also eat sugar syrup (thick sugar water).

They do also eat pollen, but its not a main food source and is actually mixed with honey and mostly used for royal jelly that the larva eat.
Worker bees eat pollen and honey. The queen bee eats royal jelly.

Answer 2

Bees mainly drink: nectar, honey and water, by lapping at it with their tongue and drawing it up their proboscis. They are able to pick up and eat grains of pollen, but nothing much larger than that.

The nectar and honey gives them carbohydrates, and the pollen gives them protein.

Answer 3

Yes, bees live on honey all their working lives.
Only during incubation are the bees also fed pollen, and this provides their protein requirements until they die.

Answer 4

Honey bees eat nectar and pollen and in the winter they eat honey that they have made and saved during the summer.

Answer 5

Birds are the main predators of honey bees.

Answer 6

Bees make honey to feed themselves during the winter when there are no flowers to supply them with nectar. So, they make honey in the summer and eat it in the winter.

Answer 7

Honey and pollen.

Answer 8

nectar, and pollen.

Answer 9

Nectar and pollen.

Answer 10

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