This Ever Happen With Your Cham

[brandon1]

Ok so I have Veiled that is close to a year old now. He won't openly eat veggies or fruit so I trick him into eating them. When he shoots a feeder I take a piece of mustard green or apple or banana and place it in his mouth while chewing the feeder. He always eats the fruit or veggie and the only time he has spit something out was orange so I guess he doesn't like them. But anyway so today I put a piece of mustard green in his mouth when he popped a bumble bee and he got about halfway through with it and then grabbed it with one of his little mittens and ripped the other half of it and dropped it . This isn't the first time he's done this but I was just wondering if anyone else has had this happen or seen or heard of it.

 

[c2c]

A bumble bee? Couldn't the stinger hurt them?

 

[sdheli420]

A bumble bee? Couldn't the stinger hurt them?

i had a cham die from a sting in the mouth..must have been an allergic reaction, because ive heard of people saying they eat bees all the time (i freak out whenever i see a bee near my cham when they have outside time)

as for the grabbing food items with their hands, i have seen this before..its pretty rare..i think he's just trying to tell you somthing..lol

 

[Solid Snake]

I feed honey bees.
I caught a bumble bee for the first time yesterday.




I have not seen these in years!
It was huge, I didnt really know what it was until after I caught it.
I didnt feed it though, wasnt sure about them, so I let it go
Ive since read of many people feeding them.

You mean he ripped the bee or the greens?
I had my xanth tear part of a hornworm out of her mouth once.
It wasnt abnormaly large, but I guess she choked or somthingrolleyes and just ripped the rest off and finished what was left.
It was quite odd.

 

[amanda509]

im not allowed to feed, or interested in feeding bees...their populations have been soo low around my area, theyre considered threatened and im pretty sure linus couldnt handle one anyways..

 

[brandon1]

I read a ton of posts about chams eating bees before I tried it myself, and even watched a video that's on here somewhere of a panther eating a monster bumble bee. Some people said that they just let them eat the bees as they are and others will cut off the stinger. I wanted to make it safer so I tried to cut off the stinger but the bee never showed one . In fact I feed him 2 bees and neither of them showed stingers. But I still cut the back ends of them, not completely off but enough to disable a stinger if they had one. Oh and he ripped the mustard green. It was a 3-4" long piece but he does this every now and then with various sized pieces. I think he didn't want greens ruining the taste of his first bumble bee lol .

 

[Solid Snake]

im not allowed to feed, or interested in feeding bees...their populations have been soo low around my area, theyre considered threatened and im pretty sure linus couldnt handle one anyways..

Sure Linus could!

https://www.chameleonforums.com/jacksons-chameleons-diet-hawaii-76647/

 

[brandon1]

Just caught 2 more today to feed him. Again they're not showing any stingers . I know that bumbles have stingers from personal experience, I got stung by one when I was younger . I'm just wondering if this is a subspecies or something that doesn't have stingers or if they are just resisting to sting because they'll die after stinging. Or does that only happen with Honey bees? Heres a couple of pics of them

 

[brandon1]

You know what, it just came to my attention that these are probably Carpenter bees

 

[Solid Snake]

You know what, it just came to my attention that these are probably Carpenter bees

I dont know what that is.
I really have only been exposed to honey bees.
Ill have to look it up.

 

[Solid Snake]

Ahhh, you have the carpenter bee, and mine is a bumble bee.

 

[brandon1]

Ahhh, you have the carpenter bee, and mine is a bumble bee.

Thanks for the confirmation. All this time trying to disable a stinger that doesn't exist when I could of just threw them in his cage . Well now I know sure .

 

[Solid Snake]

Thanks for the confirmation. All this time trying to disable a stinger that doesn't exist when I could of just threw them in his cage . Well now I know sure .

Haha, learning is fun!
So you need to quit molesting bees, and I need to quit releasing them.
Lessons learned for the day...

 

[brandon1]

Well I just found out that these are apparently Eastern Carpenter Bees and the males don't have stingers; however, the females do.

 

[Solid Snake]

Well I just found out that these are apparently Eastern Carpenter Bees and the males don't have stingers; however, the females do.

Ok, maybe we should spend a week or so studying bees. That way we know all the things...

 

[brandon1]

Ok, maybe we should spend a week or so studying bees. That way we know all the things...

Right, so how do you feed the honey bees to your cham(s)? Remove the stingers or no?