KatiLemons
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Hasanyone ever had a cham get stung? Levi is outside right now and he has eaten two bugs (unidentified). I am kinda afraid that he is gonna snag a bee and get stung on his tongue. Anyone experience this?
Eating wild bugs?! Bees?
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bigben2057
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Yes he can get stung if you want to feed him bees you'll have to pull out the stinger
KatiLemons
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I don't neccessarily want to feed him bees. I was jsut asking encase he happens to snag one without me knowing!
KatiLemons
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So he didnt flinch or act hurt at all? I wonder if they even have nerves in thier tongue. The two things I saw Levi chewing didnt make him wince in pain or anything so I am assuming they werent bees but its possible they were
No flinching just chomping. My guy is a WC panther though, not like that makes a difference. I know my chameleons usually zero in on the head and shoot that first to chomp. Probably helps by leaving the bug somewhat defenseless if it cant react. I also hear a bee can sting you when its dead so I dont know if that would make a difference either then by targeting the head.
Anyways I do watch him eat bumble bees and wasp. I dont encourage or bring them to him but it happens often.
Anyways I do watch him eat bumble bees and wasp. I dont encourage or bring them to him but it happens often.
fluxlizard
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I'm too lazy to look up the source for you, but a link to a pdf of a study on wild chameleon diet was posted here the past few months by kinyongia and according to that study, bees were the #2 most eaten wild chameleon food item after flies.
I don't think you need to be overly worried.
I don't think you need to be overly worried.
KatiLemons
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that puts me at ease! Thanks for lettin me know!
Monties1982
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They were probably wasps stealing your crickets and not bees. As far as I know, bees only eat nectar and pollen.I just caught some bees stealing live crickets out of my containers. I didnt really put 2 and 2 together till I seen a bee fly out with a cricket. I was like what the
I guess everything likes to eat crickets. Im gutloading bees now with gut loaded crickets.
sdheli420
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suppossedly they eat bees everyso often in the wild..however i freak the f*** out anytime one gets near my chams..i lost a chameleon that way once..maybe she was allergic or somthing..(i didnt feed it to her, she snatched it, got stung dropped it and her whole face swelled up and she died a day later..i HATE bees with a passion now..well when they get near my chams..otherwise good for the world, and the pollen we steal from them that i buy from whole foods to give to my crickets, lol)
Cainschams
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When i kept bigger species they would eat bees, wasps, hornets etc throughout the summer. I was like WTF!! The first time I saw it but after that it didnt worry me. The water on hot, dry days will attract them. Ive only heard of two reports of chams getting stung so it seems most of the time they get away with it.
sdheli420
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why did my lil scooby have to be 2 of 2 reports..DAMNIT, DAMN BEES!!..i loved my lil girl..that cham never left my hand , i swear, ate drank, loved me..the went for a bee while chillen in her lil tree outside..r.i.p. scoob
leads me to believe they much react to bees like people..ive been stung, irritates, hurts a lil for about 10 mins, then goes away, some people get swollen and cant breath..iguess she was the latter of the two...
http://www.thebeehunter.com/types-of-bees.html
According to this they are yellow Jackets. here in Ohio we call them bees. I know what a wasp looks like they get eaten all day by my chameleons as well as bumble bees and these yellow jackets.
At first I thought they were in the tubs for the gutload or something. Didnt really mind until I lifted egg crate and they were flying off with crickets literally. I dont know what these things eat but they were def interested in these brown crickets.
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