Beemaster's International Beekeeping Forum
BEEKEEPING LEARNING CENTER => DISEASE & PEST CONTROL => Topic started by: beeblessed on June 22, 2013, 01:05:55 pm
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i know lizards eat insects but do they specialize in bees? i have a fat lizard hanging around one of my hives.
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I think they are after other stuff. I pay mine no mind. Love my Lizards. :) d2
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I got lizards to, and also pay the no mind either.
Joe
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How about a broad headed skink?
This fella has been hanging out under one of my hives...he's a good 10 inches long. Not really sure if he's part of the solution, or part of the problem, but I'm thinking I'm going to dust him if the opportunity presents itself. :)
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May be feeding on roaches or voroa. d2
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May be feeding on roaches or voroa. d2
So....should I leave him be? :?
He REALLY is UGLY! :-D
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As a ground lizard I can't see how he's hurting anything.
Perhaps he noticed that there were some expelled drones or dying bees crawling around on the ground.
It's not venomous, its not dangerous. I say live and let live.
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thanks folks , until found guilty i think the lizard probably does more good than harm.
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Probably help keep ants maybe even beetles managed, but they are not much of a threat I do not think to the bees. Stings on the inside of their mouth surely teach them a lesson of what not to eat, unless it falls or dies outside the hive or is tossed.
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I have had the little green lizards enter the hive and stay a few minutes and come back out as casual as could be. Bees not disturbed, lizard not in a hurry. Viewed this action more than once. :) d2
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I say leave him too. If you have a SBB then I bet he's living on SHB larvae, wax moth larvae, dying bees and pollen. Sounds like a pretty plumb living arrangement.
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May be feeding on roaches or voroa. d2
So....should I leave him be? :?
He REALLY is UGLY! :-D
while you are killing uglys I have a x-wife :evil:
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while you are killing uglys I have a x-wife :evil:
scubajohn,
DANG....That's brutal! :laugh:
Update on the situation, so far, the broad-headed skink and I have managed to co-exist. Perhaps you and your X could do the same. :-D
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Some kinds of lizards are dangerous and poison so we are need to keep these lizards from our house and garden.It may cause of some serious problems like the death of some animals and other there for we should have some better way to remove these lizards from out houses. What you think about it..
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I think hes cute he can come live in my garden. I have loads of ants he can eat. 8-)
while you are killing uglys I have a x-wife :evil:
Can we add my X-husband to the list :evil:
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we have the curly tail ones down here
they do not come in ones, here
yes the eat bees I have watched them scurry up to those that land on the ground.
after they lost control and hit another going in or out.
some times an older bee. you know the oneswith the party hats
leave them bee the lizards that is. cause they do keep the grounds clean.
less food for the coons, possums, rats, and mice. oh our pet black snake likes them when it can catch
the speedos
jay
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we have the blue tailed ones around here.
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If you get.
this lizard kill it.
this lizard is green an blotchy, much like a painted pony. only green with different colors of blotches on the body. white, light green, brown.
this one comes from Cuba, is real nasty and vicious this on will bite you! Be careful.
Kill it. it is not native to America. kill it it bites! and has a triangle head. kill it.
jay
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May be feeding on roaches or voroa. d2
So....should I leave him be? :?
He REALLY is UGLY! :-D
while you are killing uglys I have a x-wife :evil:
Xwifes are always inseason
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I've never seen my lizards here go after a live healthy bee. They do love the freshly dead ones though, and the sick crawling ones that are at the edge of death, the ones that don't have enough energy to sting even if they thought about it.
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I encourage them to take up residence below my hives. Lizards really like the wiggly small hive beetle worms! They don't like bees because they sting!
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And I was worried about the daddy long legs hanging out on my hive..... :shocked: