On 07/09/2012 08:51 PM, J. Waggle wrote:

>
> Food Habits of the Swallows, a family
> of Valuable Native Birds.
>
> By F. E. L. Beal, Assistant Biologist
>

> Five stomachs contained remains of honey bees (Apis
> mellifera) with an aggregate of 11 individuals, all of
> them males, or drones.
>

Why only drones? Reasons I can think of are:

- They are defenceless
- They are bigger and fly slower
- They taste better
- It was fall and they were cast outside and dying

Some of these arguments would suggest that they also eat queens, some won't.

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