{"id":56231,"date":"2019-10-21T11:24:31","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/?p=56231"},"modified":"2019-10-21T11:24:31","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T15:24:31","slug":"coral-snake-consuming-another-snake-gets-attacked-by-bee-in-florida-backyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/coral-snake-consuming-another-snake-gets-attacked-by-bee-in-florida-backyard\/","title":{"rendered":"Coral Snake Consuming Another Snake Gets Attacked By Bee In Florida Backyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-56235 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/snake-bee.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" srcset=\"https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/snake-bee.jpeg 960w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/snake-bee-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/snake-bee-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/awesomejelly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/snake-bee-480x270.jpeg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You never know what you are going to see in your backyard, especially if you live in Florida!<\/p>\n<p>In this case, one Florida resident witnessed a coral snake eating a rat snake and then being attacked and stung by a bee!<\/p>\n<p>Evangeline Cummings, assistant provost and director of University of Florida Online in Gainesville, shared the video via Twitter, asking for help figuring out just what was going on.<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Um ok, \u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UFEntomology?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UFEntomology<\/a>\u2069 and \u2066\u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MartaWayneUF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@MartaWayneUF<\/a>\u2069 , I believe I just witnessed a BEE ? stinging a CORAL SNAKE ? while the CORAL was dining on a RAT (?) SNAKE ? and I need your support to process this. \u2066\u2066<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/UF?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@UF<\/a>\u2069 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FloridaBackyard?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FloridaBackyard<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/djbJJGxaUk\">pic.twitter.com\/djbJJGxaUk<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evangeline Cummings (@EvieCummings23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvieCummings23\/status\/1184908308249010176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>A doctoral student at the University replied:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Provost Cummings, you should talk to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/heart2herp?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@heart2herp<\/a>, who is a grad student at your univ, she can tell you all about those snakes! The coral would have no trouble climbing that plant. And the wasp most certainly stung it, based on its reactions!<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Emily Taylor (@snakeymama) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/snakeymama\/status\/1185036739187888129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n<p>It became unclear how the rat snake ended up in the rose bush, but there is a popular theory:<\/p>\n<div class=\"flex-video\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">So we\u2019ve now settled on our favorite theory: rat snake was dropped by a hawk or similar and landed in the rosebush. (But the rat snake is somewhat twisted around the branches so I wonder if when I was dropped it was still partially alive and tried to free itself and could not.?)<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Evangeline Cummings (@EvieCummings23) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EvieCummings23\/status\/1185945709058707458?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 20, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You never know what you are going to see in your backyard, especially if you live in Florida! In this case, one Florida resident witnessed a coral snake eating a rat snake and then being attacked and stung by a bee! Evangeline Cummings, assistant provost and director of University of Florida Online in Gainesville, shared the video via Twitter, asking for help figuring out just what was going on. Um ok, \u2066@UFEntomology\u2069 and \u2066\u2066@MartaWayneUF\u2069 , I believe I just witnessed a BEE ? stinging a CORAL SNAKE ? while the CORAL was dining on a RAT (?) 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