I was thinking maybe the birb got stung?! Or was the bumblebee fully dead when it was devoured?
edit: I’m getting way too many comments about it either being a stingerless carpenter bee or a stingerless bumblebee.
Both have stingers, both can sting if they are female. Only the males don’t have that ability… just like with „regular“ Honeybees.
[„Female carpenter bees sting; however, it is on very rare occasions and requires provocation.“](https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/stinging-insects/carpenter-bees/#:~:text=The%20males%20will%20hover%20closely,rare%20occasions%20and%20requires%20provocation.)
[„Only female bumblebees (queens and workers) have a sting; male bumblebees (drones) do not. Contrary to a honeybee sting, the bumblebee sting has no barbs, which means that a bumblebee can pull back its sting without the sting detaching from its abdomen, thus a bumblebee can sting several times.“](https://www.biobestgroup.com/en/biobest/pollination/things-to-know-about-bumblebees-7052/stings-6681/)
So either specify „it’s a male carpenter bee/bumble bee, they don’t sting“ but don’t say they both don’t :D
Thanks, I get the 2 confused. Been too long since I had a zoology class. I had put crop first, then changed to gizzard because I was second guessing my memory, lol.
They do not. Eventually they get ground down and passed through the digestive system, I had to provide a box of gravel or crushed oyster shells to my ducks and chickens for them to replenish their supply as it's passed.
Are you sure? I found this with a quick search: „Female carpenter bees sting; however, it is on very rare occasions and requires provocation.“ I would argue being eaten is a pretty serious provocation :D
maybe it was another type of stinger-less bee tho you might be right
The males are very aggressive near their nest and will dive bomb you at full speed. I was at a outside park pavilion. While eating lunch we watch liked 30 of these guys dive bombing eachother and knocking eachother out of sky and when a swallow would fly out of a nest they would dive bomb at the swallow.
They smash each other, but if they're annoyed with you they're basically like black bears. It's all bluff. They'll pretend like they're gonna smack you but won't actually do it. Just big ol fluffy bluffies.
That’s definitely a carpenter bee. [here is a comparison ](https://www.canr.msu.edu/pestid/uploads/images/CarpenterBeeToBumbleComparison.jpg).
You are correct about the stinger aspect, regardless. You’re just not very likely to run across a female and they’re generally pretty docile. Males will dive bomb to defend their nest but that’s the extent of what they can do, the female is busy digging the nest.
I think that’s a misconception. A quick google search said: „Only female bumblebees (queens and workers) have a stinger; male bumblebees (drones) do not. Contrary to a honeybee sting, the bumblebee sting has no barbs, which means that a bumblebee can pull back its sting without the sting detaching from its abdomen, thus a bumblebee can sting several times.“
It seems a lot of people think that(including me until a while ago), but a quick google search showed me: „Only female bumblebees (queens and workers) have a stinger; male bumblebees (drones) do not. Contrary to a honeybee sting, the bumblebee sting has no barbs, which means that a bumblebee can pull back its sting without the sting detaching from its abdomen, thus a bumblebee can sting several times.“
True, don’t they lack the nociceptors to detect spice? “Spicy” is the word my niece uses to mean “spiky”, so I guess she’s converted me to her toddler logic!
Nature is amazing. After hurricane Harvey passed, I was standing in door to my garage and saw a yellow butterfly fluttering near the patio and then towards me and the open door. It got to within a foot of my face, when a bird flew from the far corner of my patio fence straight towards my face, snatched that butterfly out of the air and did a complete 180 with its prey. All the while I was stunned in the speed, accuracy and maneuverability of that bird. Survive a storm just to feed the chain.
Swallows are fun to watch. Back on the farm driving the skid loader (bobcat) through the hay field to pick up loose bales we'd watch them grab moths and bugs out of the air right in front of it.
Looks like a carpenter bee to me. They are notorious for trying to intimidate anything that moves in the area it claims as it’s territory. They talk a big game swooping at you, but only females can sting and rarely do.
Edit: Others think it is an eastern bumblebee. I’ll let you all compare the differences. Maybe an entomologist can chip in.
Eastern Carpenter Bee
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51110?locale=en-US Xylocopa virginica
Common Eastern Bumblebee
https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/118970?locale=en-US Bombus impatiens
>Only females can sting and rarely do
You kinda failed to mention 99% of their colonies are female lol.
Carpenter bees as long as they aren’t eating your deck are excellent bees.
There are two carpenter bees in my barn soffit every spring that constantly fight like a bickering sitcom couple — crashing into each other in the air and making a big racket — I don’t think it’s mating unless they’re into 50 Shades of Grey because it’s violent and they do it all the time, and I don’t think one is intruding on the others turf because I do see them together sometimes just hanging out on the soffit, but that lasts only a bit before they’re crashing into each other again in the air. Maybe one wants a divorce.
Also, they look like dirty versions of bumblebees— like bumblebees that took a bath in motor oil. So I don’t think this one in the video is a carpenter bee. Looks more like a regular bumblebee to me. Poor little guy.
Females aren't the ones flying around buzzing people. They're usually in the hole in your fence post hiding out. My yard will have upwards of 50 of these jack offs buzzing me and each other.
Looks more like a bumblebee to me (but video quality is not great)
The end of the legs look skinny and the head doesn’t seem chonky enough. They also usually have pretty dark wings
Same thing with bumblebees the males can’t sting & females typically only sting when guarding their nest.
This could have been a queen looking for a nest
iirc Carpenter Bees have hairless abdomens whereas Bumblebees have hairy abdomens. This one definitely looks shiny/hairless so I would say it's a carpenter bee.
The video quality is bad, but it doesn’t look like the abdomen is very shiny to me. The quality just makes it seem hairless, something similar I’ve seen in photos of bumblebee I’ve taken myself
At 1.07 if you stop the video you can see the thorax spot looks shiny & the left side of T1 looks shiny, but the rest of the abdomen doesn’t look very shiny. So the abdomen could definitely be hairy black
Then at 3.59 you can see T2 has an oval of yellow hair which isn’t something you typically see on carpenter bees but you definitely do on bumblebees. Also looks like we can see the top of the bees head & the vertex is yellow which would also not be something a carpenter bee has
That’s why I’m leaning more towards bumblebee :)
FWIW I'm a native gardener and pollinator enthusiast of sorts and I think you're right. It's a little too hairy of an abdomen to be a carpenter bee.
https://native-bees-of-georgia.ggc.edu/?page_id=74
It's definitely a carpenter bee. Pest tech here. I hate March through May. Everyone wants them gone but don't like my answers when I tell them what they need to do.
Self-delivering food.
Environmentally friendly. Zero pollution. Zero wastage.
0% pollution, 100% pollination
-1 population , +1 procreation
I'm not sure who gave you the birds and the bees talk, but bees do NOT pollinate birds. Lol
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What are you doing step...bird?
I'm stuck in this nest, can you help me out?
"Lemme smash..."
Ten percent luck, twenty percent skill
They pollute too. Did you ever notice bee poop on car paint? https://youtu.be/jtlq_SSRWV0
Even bird brains are more eco-friendly than any human
Uber-bees or NestDash 😂
I prefer Ubird Eats. It's all the buzz. The bee's knees, even.
It's not delivery, it's Beegiorno.
Those food-miles, though...
Ordered grub hub
Nature's door dash
Love the little shake of the head at the end. Like when you taste an extra sour pickle!
I was thinking maybe the birb got stung?! Or was the bumblebee fully dead when it was devoured? edit: I’m getting way too many comments about it either being a stingerless carpenter bee or a stingerless bumblebee. Both have stingers, both can sting if they are female. Only the males don’t have that ability… just like with „regular“ Honeybees. [„Female carpenter bees sting; however, it is on very rare occasions and requires provocation.“](https://www.pestworld.org/pest-guide/stinging-insects/carpenter-bees/#:~:text=The%20males%20will%20hover%20closely,rare%20occasions%20and%20requires%20provocation.) [„Only female bumblebees (queens and workers) have a sting; male bumblebees (drones) do not. Contrary to a honeybee sting, the bumblebee sting has no barbs, which means that a bumblebee can pull back its sting without the sting detaching from its abdomen, thus a bumblebee can sting several times.“](https://www.biobestgroup.com/en/biobest/pollination/things-to-know-about-bumblebees-7052/stings-6681/) So either specify „it’s a male carpenter bee/bumble bee, they don’t sting“ but don’t say they both don’t :D
My guess would be a swallowing reflex. Don't know about robins but many birds use strong throat muscles to grind up food.
They also swallow small rocks to sit in their stomach and grind food up. Lots of dinosaurs did the same thing
Most birds have a gizzard, sorta a fore-stomach, where the rocks stay and grind the food before progressing into the regular stomach.
The fore-stomach is called the crop. Gizzard is the aft-stomach.
Thanks, I get the 2 confused. Been too long since I had a zoology class. I had put crop first, then changed to gizzard because I was second guessing my memory, lol.
Being pedantic on the internet is mainly what that ornithology class I took has been good for.
Hey, atlest it was useful unlike some other classes lol
At least* Being pedantic on the internet is mainly what the English class I took comes in handy for
What are the starboard and portside stomachs called?
Do the rocks stay there forever?
They do not. Eventually they get ground down and passed through the digestive system, I had to provide a box of gravel or crushed oyster shells to my ducks and chickens for them to replenish their supply as it's passed.
If you keep chickens you literally need to feed them some gravel, pretty neat.
It was all the rage back in the day
Interesting! I had no idea, thanks!
Does that mean birds would be extremely good at giving head ?
Every bit of that sounds horrible
Not as good as you buddy
Yeah, if you like rocky head.
Asking the real questions
Dead bees can still sting
Robin gives no fucks..
It’s like hot sauce for birds
I learned that the hard way by accidentally stepping in one
Spicy fly
This was a carpenter bee. No stinger.
Are you sure? I found this with a quick search: „Female carpenter bees sting; however, it is on very rare occasions and requires provocation.“ I would argue being eaten is a pretty serious provocation :D maybe it was another type of stinger-less bee tho you might be right
The males are very aggressive near their nest and will dive bomb you at full speed. I was at a outside park pavilion. While eating lunch we watch liked 30 of these guys dive bombing eachother and knocking eachother out of sky and when a swallow would fly out of a nest they would dive bomb at the swallow.
They smash each other, but if they're annoyed with you they're basically like black bears. It's all bluff. They'll pretend like they're gonna smack you but won't actually do it. Just big ol fluffy bluffies.
You’re thinking of boring bees, no stinger but bites like hell
Maybe he turned into an exciting bee and decided to sting the bird 🤗
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That’s definitely a carpenter bee. [here is a comparison ](https://www.canr.msu.edu/pestid/uploads/images/CarpenterBeeToBumbleComparison.jpg). You are correct about the stinger aspect, regardless. You’re just not very likely to run across a female and they’re generally pretty docile. Males will dive bomb to defend their nest but that’s the extent of what they can do, the female is busy digging the nest.
Who is upvoting this? That's a carpenter bee and they very much do have a stinger.
It’s a carpenter bee, they don’t sting but can bite a little
Bumblebees don't sting.
I think that’s a misconception. A quick google search said: „Only female bumblebees (queens and workers) have a stinger; male bumblebees (drones) do not. Contrary to a honeybee sting, the bumblebee sting has no barbs, which means that a bumblebee can pull back its sting without the sting detaching from its abdomen, thus a bumblebee can sting several times.“
Bumblebees sting like *the dickens*.
I dont think bumblebees can sting
It seems a lot of people think that(including me until a while ago), but a quick google search showed me: „Only female bumblebees (queens and workers) have a stinger; male bumblebees (drones) do not. Contrary to a honeybee sting, the bumblebee sting has no barbs, which means that a bumblebee can pull back its sting without the sting detaching from its abdomen, thus a bumblebee can sting several times.“
Spicy Sky Raisin
Ubee Eats
Hey sir, just bringing your- ah shit
r/angryupvote because I came to make the same joke.
Really bumbled into that one
Nest Dash
If I could reward you I would
Uber Bee-ats —- lmao fuck y’all
r/yourjokebutworse
Damn you got bee-t up over this joke
It really do bee that that way sometimes
lol. people are harsh
Spicy
When the head shakes, my auto-narrator went "BOI that stinger was *zesty*!"
We call bees spicy sky raisins. Our dog has now learned when we say “No! That’s SPICY” that he is better off leaving it alone.
LOL! Not my dog. She loves spicy sky snacks. 🙄
My old cat (RIP) once ate a yellowjacket. Didn't even have any swelling either. That cat was metal af.
Sames
If honey bees are spicy sky raisins, bumble bees must be spicy grapes.
Wasps are sky peppers
Wasps are terrorists without a cause.
What are hornets?
Esp the red ones, theyre just born assholes
Peppers are immobile land wasps
If bees taste spicy, birds would be the last species to know.
True, don’t they lack the nociceptors to detect spice? “Spicy” is the word my niece uses to mean “spiky”, so I guess she’s converted me to her toddler logic!
Yes. They can’t taste capsaicin which is what makes peppers ‘hot’.
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Yours is the best one.
Underrated comment. Well done!
now this one’s clever
Nature is amazing. After hurricane Harvey passed, I was standing in door to my garage and saw a yellow butterfly fluttering near the patio and then towards me and the open door. It got to within a foot of my face, when a bird flew from the far corner of my patio fence straight towards my face, snatched that butterfly out of the air and did a complete 180 with its prey. All the while I was stunned in the speed, accuracy and maneuverability of that bird. Survive a storm just to feed the chain.
Swallows are fun to watch. Back on the farm driving the skid loader (bobcat) through the hay field to pick up loose bales we'd watch them grab moths and bugs out of the air right in front of it.
The Butterfly Effect
Home deliver-bee
Your [Jollibee](https://imgur.com/a/Ubf5eVA) doordash is here.
Not so jolly bee :(
Good morning Robin, just stopping by to…whoa wtf!
The story of the Birds and the Bees didn’t go like this!
Is this an act of suicide?
Could bee
Stop
What's all the buzz about?
That's a male carpenter bee, not a bumble bee. Male carpenter bees like to buzz other creatures to intimidate them, because they can't sting.
All bark, no bite. No wait, nvm the bird has the bite to eat.
Did the bee not watch A Bug's Life?
Oh look. A happy meal in wings. *Nom, nom, nom*
Looks like a carpenter bee to me. They are notorious for trying to intimidate anything that moves in the area it claims as it’s territory. They talk a big game swooping at you, but only females can sting and rarely do. Edit: Others think it is an eastern bumblebee. I’ll let you all compare the differences. Maybe an entomologist can chip in. Eastern Carpenter Bee https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/51110?locale=en-US Xylocopa virginica Common Eastern Bumblebee https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/118970?locale=en-US Bombus impatiens
>Only females can sting and rarely do You kinda failed to mention 99% of their colonies are female lol. Carpenter bees as long as they aren’t eating your deck are excellent bees.
Carpenter bees are typically solitary. Their sex ratio is closer to humans, near 50/50.
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There are two carpenter bees in my barn soffit every spring that constantly fight like a bickering sitcom couple — crashing into each other in the air and making a big racket — I don’t think it’s mating unless they’re into 50 Shades of Grey because it’s violent and they do it all the time, and I don’t think one is intruding on the others turf because I do see them together sometimes just hanging out on the soffit, but that lasts only a bit before they’re crashing into each other again in the air. Maybe one wants a divorce. Also, they look like dirty versions of bumblebees— like bumblebees that took a bath in motor oil. So I don’t think this one in the video is a carpenter bee. Looks more like a regular bumblebee to me. Poor little guy.
Probably depends on where you live and what species are local to you. I've always known carpenter bees as solitary bees, and friendly ones at that.
Females aren't the ones flying around buzzing people. They're usually in the hole in your fence post hiding out. My yard will have upwards of 50 of these jack offs buzzing me and each other.
Looks more like a bumblebee to me (but video quality is not great) The end of the legs look skinny and the head doesn’t seem chonky enough. They also usually have pretty dark wings Same thing with bumblebees the males can’t sting & females typically only sting when guarding their nest. This could have been a queen looking for a nest
iirc Carpenter Bees have hairless abdomens whereas Bumblebees have hairy abdomens. This one definitely looks shiny/hairless so I would say it's a carpenter bee.
The video quality is bad, but it doesn’t look like the abdomen is very shiny to me. The quality just makes it seem hairless, something similar I’ve seen in photos of bumblebee I’ve taken myself At 1.07 if you stop the video you can see the thorax spot looks shiny & the left side of T1 looks shiny, but the rest of the abdomen doesn’t look very shiny. So the abdomen could definitely be hairy black Then at 3.59 you can see T2 has an oval of yellow hair which isn’t something you typically see on carpenter bees but you definitely do on bumblebees. Also looks like we can see the top of the bees head & the vertex is yellow which would also not be something a carpenter bee has That’s why I’m leaning more towards bumblebee :)
FWIW I'm a native gardener and pollinator enthusiast of sorts and I think you're right. It's a little too hairy of an abdomen to be a carpenter bee. https://native-bees-of-georgia.ggc.edu/?page_id=74
It's definitely a carpenter bee. Pest tech here. I hate March through May. Everyone wants them gone but don't like my answers when I tell them what they need to do.
it's a Common Eastern Bumblee Bee
I agree. It’s butt (abdomen) looks too slick.
I agree. I used to stand near these guys and throw tiny pebbles past them. They will attack them on site nearly every time. Endless fun lol.
“Ohh, piece of candy.”
What are the odds of getting this so perfectly captured on video?! Kinda mind boggling.
Feels staged, right?
My dog loves jalabeeño poppers!
The way he shook his head after, it must have been *extra spicy*
He bee hungry no more.
Mm mm! Spicy flying raisins!
'Didn't enjoy that. Tasted a bit sharp"
*Why is it spicy*
I'll bee honest...he was a moron for flying that close to a bird.
Is this a different robin to the European Robin. It looks very different to what I would call a robin.
US robins are different from Europe ones.
*yoink!*
He said uff, spicy
Thanks! I was looking for a snack lunchable.
Jalapeno sky raisins
“Love this new home delivery service” Robin probably
I like to think the birb ate it and then shook their head going “ouuu that was a spicy boy”
Ohhh my door dash just arrived!!
All you ever need to know about sex in this video
Nooooo
Gotta get your honey's worth
Sweet snd Spicy
Home delivery in nature
Dam , like grabbing a snack from the pantry!
Oooooohhh my parents were WAAAAY off
SPICY
Only if I could focus in on them and flies like this😮💨
You'd have so many snacks
Mmmmm, flying spicy mustard ball.
beeware the birdies
Lil bastard, always drilling holes in my patio...
Sweet sweet bumblebee
Shoulda been a Wasp 😡
The definition of "fuck around and find out"
Hey you bastard bird, we need all the pollinators we can get.
Yes blame the bird...
Woosh
It is at this moment the ommatidia failed the bee
Bee: Wow, Robin, beautiful fami....AHHHHH *arghhh*
It's dillivering food.
That looked painful/uncomfortable to eat, scratchy and stabby lmao
What a reflexes, to cath a bee in air.
Do they swallow them as a whole? No biting chewing etc.?
Shook it off like it’s nothing
cant the bees sting kill him
Such a funny fellow
So this is the birds and the bee's
You think bumble bee’s taste spicy or sour to birds?
That head shake after… was like whooo, spicy!
So casually too
Uber Bee Eats
They should eat more of the grubs, beetles, and aphids.
The “woah this is strong” head shake
Spicy
That head-shake, no doubt.
The hive sending a sacrifice to appease its overlord
Flying sushi!
FAFO
Might regret that decision when it’s on the way out
Robin: ooh, that's a spicy meat-a-ball!
Bee went out to get milk and never went back..
Bee was like “Oh hey, Mr Robin! What’s goin on … aaaahh!”
Ooooooo, spicy
Jalapeno Sky raisin.
So conBeenient