What family do bee-eaters belong to?
Q: What family do bee-eaters belong to?
A: Bee-eaters belong to the family Meropidae.
Q: Where do bee-eaters live?
A: Bee-eaters live in the Old World and Australasia, including Africa, Asia, Europe, Australia, and New Guinea.
Q: How many species of bee-eater are there?
A: There are 26 different species of bee-eater.
Q: What type of insects do bee-eaters eat?
A: Bee-eaters mainly eat flying insects such as bees and wasps. They also eat honeybees and Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps).
Q: How do they catch their prey?
A: Bee-eaters catch their prey by darting from a perch while it is still in the air. Once an insect has landed they ignore it.
Q: How do they prepare their food before eating it?
A: Before eating its meal, a bee-eater removes the sting by repeatedly hitting and rubbing the insect on a hard surface to squeeze out most of the venom.
Q: Where do they nest?
A: Bee-eaters form colonies by nesting in burrows tunnelled into the side of sandy banks or river edges that have collapsed.
