Honey i've been robbed

We have a newly constructed strawberry planter where a bee has set up home. It has found a hole and is bringing in leaves and pollen.

Now there is another smaller bee, of a different species, that sits outside the hole and when the home maker leaves the 'robber' nips in and steals the pollen..........

This surely is robbery without violence..............

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Tom E
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Possibly lead to a sting operation.

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Rob.

that was the buzz on the grapevine...

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Tom E

The big bee has obviously set up its own business; the small bee is a public sector employee.

Toom

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Toom Tabard

IANAL - whatever the legal case, the 'robber' bee clearly gets some kind of buzz out of it.

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<nospam

Unless its some kind of honey-trap?

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<nospam

Does the home-maker make a bee-line straight back home after collecting the pollen?

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<nospam

Or has it bee-n seen out visiting other "flowers"?

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<nospam

Well, if he's cheating, he'll soon get stung... Why can't everyone bee nice to each other? Ho-hum. Typical man, no doubt he think's he's the bees-knees.

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<nospam

bee-have yourself...........

anyway the bee is now dead alongside his home. Not sure what killed it or it has just died out of all that hard work. I lifted the plastic covering over the 'hive' which looks very complex for a small assembly.

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Tom E

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