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"T.V. Fischer" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Jun 1997 09:37:01 +0000
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Steve Pearce wrote:
>
> >"The holes................They capture insects, place them in the hole they have made,
> >lay an egg on the insect and when the Carpenter Bee larva hatches it lives on the insect"
> .......There are NO bees in existence which are predatory.
>
> So, do these bees catch and kill insects or not ?
>
> (I'm still confused)
 
The first sentence is FALSE.  The second sentence is TRUE.  Let the
confusion, as well as this thread, end, since these (or any other) bees
DO NOT eat insects.
 
Ted Fischer

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