How the Bees Were Caught and Eaten.
Some time since we published, on the authority of a gentleman upon whom we could rely, ■what appeared to some to be a remarkable story to the effect that the black-capped tit was in the habit of depositing itself on one ot his beehives, tapping on the hive with its beak, and when a bee came out to reconnoitre, of gobbling the bee up. This was not the only instance we had been informed of as happening in the neighbourhood. And still another report to similar effect reaches us. Last week the same thing was experienced in the garden at the station. The bird tapped, a bee came out, and the tit caught and swallowed it. And so on till it had had enough. There were two mates at the game, and measures had to be taken to protect the bees. There is a difference of opinion as to whether the depredators were the black-capped tit or the tomtit.—West Sussex Gazette.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1813, 20 August 1886, Page 8
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168How the Bees Were Caught and Eaten. Otago Witness, Issue 1813, 20 August 1886, Page 8
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