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Chameleons can eat bees and wasps??? So if I find a wasp I can feed it to my cham?
Chameleons can eat bees and wasps??? So if I find a wasp I can feed it to my cham?
The cham won't get stung?? It really is perfectly safe for me to feed my cham wasps???
I want to use them as feeders if they are so good for them, but I don't want there to be a chance of my cham getting stung. I'm not really worried about the cham getting stung while the wasp is on the loose, but rather in the cham's mouth. Even dead wasps can sting. Do you guys have vids of a veiled eating a wasp or be?? I want to make sure it is ok.for sure they eat bees and wasps
For some species, it is the dominant food source
your chameleon should be easily able to catch and eat it if it is not a too big size for it
Here is an oust just going to town eating small bees. And you would think the smaller the bee the greater the odds of getting stung, but again its just nom nom all day.
Yes, chameleons eat bees and wasps, and from what I read, stings are very infrequent. However, I think making your own risk assessment based on reflection as well as anecdotal data is important. I don’t raise bees and wasps to feed year-round. But when my chams go outside for the summer, I’m sure they tag many. Your intuitions appear to be giving you pause about this. So, rather than merely asking other people online whether you should or shouldn’t, why not hold off until you have assuaged your conscience with verifiable data.
Is there risks with getting stung? Negative effects? Any data you have seen about this?
but what about veileds?? If it is such a great feeder i will do it.
I have not read any data about stings. My guess is that there is always a risk of getting stung. I don’t know how much damage a sting would do were it to be on the skin; but I shutter to think what a sting in the mouth or on the tongue would look like.Is there risks with getting stung? Negative effects? Any data you have seen about this?
Yikes! Sorry bud, I didn’t mean to come across as rude. My apologies. Let me rephrase. You asked us whether you should or shouldn’t, but seemed to be hesitant. Since several of us indicated that chameleons do in fact eat bees and wasps, and since you still seemed to hold some reservations, I recommended what I, myself, would do; namely, to seek out additional info to make me feel more confident in a answer either way. ‘Merely’ was not meant pejoratively, but as indicative of the other avenues of research possible. That being said, the only one to blame for the confusion is me, and for my poor choice in diction, I apologize.Oh definitely. He must surely have some reliable data before telling me to stop "merely asking people online" and to go "assuage my conscience."
But I'm gonna go look at some "Verifiable Data" so that I can go "assuage my conscience" instead of "Merely asking other people online whether you should or shouldn't", right?
What is it about their hunting technique that allows them to avoid the sting so well?i jsve done hundreds of fecal samples of wild Yemen chameleons, they are full of bees and wasps.
I jave no evidence of any single sting in my 30years practice of breeding them in thousands and I fed with bees and wesps. The only case ai jave seen in years was an unfortunate case when a captive young Calumma brevicorne packed a carpenter bee of very big size (exceeding bead length), it was stung into the head and died.
But tjisbwas due to inadequate size.
They do it fir millions of years. You will bot find in literatire an evidence of absence of potential problem, as thisnis a nonsense. Same as you will metely find a report on the risks of breathing, running the Krebs-cycle and defecating.
I want to use them as feeders if they are so good for them, but I don't want there to be a chance of my cham getting stung. I'm not really worried about the cham getting stung while the wasp is on the loose, but rather in the cham's mouth. Even dead wasps can sting. Do you guys have vids of a veiled eating a wasp or be?? I want to make sure it is ok.
What is it about their hunting technique that allows them to avoid the sting so well?