bee eaters!

[juanito]

greetings from sunny spain,
Don't know which is worse, we got home from work today to find several Bee eaters dive bombing our hives and feasting on our bees, we did manage to scare them away but who knows how long they were there,
or! when we went down to our little allotment to do a bit of digging, we found that the wild boar had dug up all the newly planted onions, I am just glad its the weekend, adios.

 

[enrico]

Some idiot had introduced wild boar over here now! Forest if dene is being wrecked by them!

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Some idiot had introduced wild boar over here now! Forest if dene is being wrecked by them!

Look on the bright side. Buy a hunting bow and learn to butcher and cure the meat.

 

[enrico]

I can butcher and cure the meat no problem. I also have a friend in the forest who has built a boar trap out of scaffolding poles.... Bit like a giant mouse trap. Guess it will be pork for dinner soon!

 

[Stiffy]

Wish I had bee eaters, what beautiful birds. I can't imagine that they would cause too much devastation?
Not sure I would want the boar there's enough on here a already
S
S

 

[johnnie1uk]

Weve a flock of beeeaters here, I wasn't that worried because I read that they mostly feast on other insects, now you've got me worried as my hive is in the campo!

 

[johnnie1uk]

After a little research -------
The claim that Bee-eaters raid beehives every spring, naturalists’ observations contradict this and the latest report from the Ecology Unit of University of Murcia bears this out!

Standard beehives have an average of 55,000 worker bees and daily replacement index is about 1,200-1,500 bees. The researchers and field reports show the number of worker-bees eaten by a Bee-eater to be 1,493 individuals in a six month period. Additionally, bees are not the favourite insect for the birds, as other Himenoptera such as Bumble Bee spp. are favoured, with additional predation of beetles and large dragonflies.

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

I can butcher and cure the meat no problem. I also have a friend in the forest who has built a boar trap out of scaffolding poles.... Bit like a giant mouse trap.

Must cost you a fortune in cheese to bait it

 

[Gimlet]

Look on the bright side. Buy a hunting bow and learn to butcher and cure the meat.

Unfortunately bow hunting is illegal here in the UK but I'm not far away from the forest and I am licenced to shoot wild boar.

 

[Dishmop]

Unfortunately bow hunting is illegal here in the UK but I'm not far away from the forest and I am licenced to shoot wild boar.

Are harpoons legal?

 

[Gilberdyke John]

Unfortunately bow hunting is illegal here in the UK but I'm not far away from the forest and I am licenced to shoot wild boar.

So is poaching but that hasn't stopped it yet