They must be some out standing bees you have! Ours are content with pollen and nectar. Gil
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The other day after I fed the cows I stood and watched them eat. As I was > looking a yellow jack bee landed on the top wire right in front of me, it was > holding a fly. In front of my eyes I watched the bee bite off the flies > wings and legs, then eat the head, with the appendages dispatched and the > head gone the bee flew off. All summer I saw the yellow jackets hovering > around the cows feet where the flies like to chew. The flies would get > caught up in the long hairs of the Scottish Highlander cows and become bee > food. This is a very beneficial relationship. Has anyone else seen this > phenomenon???...sstorch