Lizard and Honey Bee Relationships

  • While skinks are often allowed into the nest to help keep the wax moth population in balance, they are the only lizard species given this privilege. Other lizard species, such as the rock agama and the black girdled lizard, love to eat honey bees and are therefore attacked by guards should they venture too close to the nest. Honey bees in flight are more challenging to catch than dead ones, so these lizards will hang around the outside of the nest ready to make a meal of deformed newly hatched bees who remove themselves from the nest or bees who can't quite make it back to the safety of the nest.
  • Nature has orchestrated this incredibly interwoven dynamic of multiple species coexisting together, in balance, to everyone's benefit.

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