Stung in the mouth!! help!!

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agent A

agent A

the autistic flower mantis
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hey all, i fed my female s. californica some bees today

she ate one then grabbed another

however as she ate it, she nosedived straight into the stinger and i think she got stung right in the mouth!

she is just standing, kinda stunned, and can't seem to move her mouthparts and the bee is biting her claw

wat should i do???

 
Im sure theyve adapted to that at this point.

I just dont like the idea of killing bees. Has anyone noticed that the amount of fruit being produced on certain plants is dropping in a ratio with the amount of flowers the plant has? I know friends who have noticed this too, at least in bakersfield. Coincidentally with a decline in bees, noticeable with pure observation.

A little off-topic there. But just had to bring it up.

 
Sneaky123 said:
Im sure theyve adapted to that at this point.

I just dont like the idea of killing bees. Has anyone noticed that the amount of fruit being produced on certain plants is dropping in a ratio with the amount of flowers the plant has? I know friends who have noticed this too, at least in bakersfield. Coincidentally with a decline in bees, noticeable with pure observation.

A little off-topic there. But just had to bring it up.
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i think it's odd how if u spray a bee with wd-40 (a silicone lubricant) it curls up and turns black :huh:

 
Sneaky123 said:
Im sure theyve adapted to that at this point.

I just dont like the idea of killing bees. Has anyone noticed that the amount of fruit being produced on certain plants is dropping in a ratio with the amount of flowers the plant has? I know friends who have noticed this too, at least in bakersfield. Coincidentally with a decline in bees, noticeable with pure observation.

A little off-topic there. But just had to bring it up.
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Nope, in fact my fruit trees seem to produce too much fruit. I have a hard time clearing it off fast enough so I don't end up with a rotting mess. My baby tree can barely even keep its limbs up it gets so heavy with fruit. I also still seem to see a thriving population of wild honey bees each season too. Perhaps some of it is location.
 
Sneaky123 said:
Im sure theyve adapted to that at this point.

I just dont like the idea of killing bees. Has anyone noticed that the amount of fruit being produced on certain plants is dropping in a ratio with the amount of flowers the plant has? I know friends who have noticed this too, at least in bakersfield. Coincidentally with a decline in bees, noticeable with pure observation.

A little off-topic there. But just had to bring it up.
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I think that the problem is the queen taking the colony and getting lost. Killing a few bees won't hurt anything.

 
Mime454 said:
I think that the problem is the queen taking the colony and getting lost. Killing a few bees won't hurt anything.
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funny story, i found 4 worker bees building a nest so i thought one was a queen

i brought it to skewl to give to my latin teacher and he said (not only dont bring bees to skewl because someone in class was allergic) that the workers mustve gotten lost and their last command was to build so that's why they built

 
I am pretty certain I kill more honey bees on my daily commute then any mantis would eat any given day, not to mention all the other natural predators. unless you are raiding hives for your entire mantis stock, then I really wouldn't think too hard on it.

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Besides if you are really worried about bee populations , you could stop using your cell phones(http://scientopia.org/blogs/scicurious/2011/05/25/are-cell-phones-killing-the-bees/)

I dunno my roommate was giving me guf about feeding honey bees to my idolos when others flyers became less avail. So it has become kind of a pet-peeve of mine, as a little common sense will tell you that the 2-3 bees you may feed off a day just seem so insignificant in the big picture.

In my world, I try not to use feeders that have more potential to hurt my mantis, but when push comes to shove sometimes it's better then a starved to death mantis.

 
I saw on Vanishing of the Bees that the cell phone link had very little evidence to support it. Neonictotinoids(not sure of spelling) seems to be where most scientists are currently placing the blame.

 
There is a honeybee hive in my house (in the roof/siding) and it does no harm, so it's staying...but an africanized honey bee hive is just around the block that I harvest workers out of at night for the mantids...invasive species are ruining south FL :(

 

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