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===Diet=== [[File:Greater Honeyguide, Gambia.jpg|thumb|Immature male in [[The Gambia]]]] {{Unreferenced section|date=January 2023}} The greater honeyguide feeds primarily on the contents of [[bee]] colonies: [[beeswax]], [[egg (biology)|eggs]], [[larva]]e and [[pupa]]e; and [[waxworm]]s. It enters bees' nests while the bees are torpid in the early morning, feeds at abandoned hives and scavenges at hives robbed by people or other large animals, notably the honey badger. It frequently associates with other honeyguides at bees' nests; immatures dominate adults, and immatures of this species dominate all others.
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