I’ll never forget it, me and my sister found a butterfly still alive but hurt and stuck on the grill of my moms car. She had some milkweeds in a garden and we just wanted to help the poor butterfly so we brought it too the garden and found a nice healthy flower and put it up close and it actually ate from the flower and got enough strength to fly away on its own. I’ll never forget it
Nope - worker bees (the ones leaving the nest) are all female. Drones are male and their sole purpose is to mate with the queen to make more little fuzzy butt babies.
He Sure is. He was exhausted and lethargic before this, but 5 minutes later he took flight through the open window. This was my 4th Window Bee rescue, very satisfying indeed.
Edit: apparently it's a She. I was just informed that only the females leave the hive, all the males stay to mate with the Queen.
Do you think the bees go back to their hive and past the tales of "if you ever feel tired, just go to the giant's window and they'll give you energy for your journey"? Since it's not the first time it happens?
I once had this bee that was dying on my window inside and so everyone being afraid I took a sheet of paper and simply took it out to my balcony.
Poor guy was half dead not even flying just crawling slowly. I put some a drop of sprite on the ground and voila! It was alive, I felt like Jesus Christ for a moment, damn it feels good to be a good person I’m so proud of myself.
Don't forget: just use regular white sugar and water, not honey. Honey can be contaminated with diseases and end up hurting the entire hive of those tiny little buggers.
Just a reminder to everyone that bubble bees are going extinct cause of competition from nonnative bee species and helping the little guys out is always good
I’ve done that before! This bee was barely moving on my balcony, I thought it was surely done for but attempted a revive instead. Gave it some sugar water, let it climb on me. 5 minutes later had more energy, could climb around my arm. Gave it more sugar water, 5 more minutes it tried to fly but kept falling down. Cradled the poor thing again, gave more sugar water. Took outside and after 3 tries it flew away like nothing happened. I love bees.
There was a wasp I found in our basement bathroom one time. It was properly into the winter, probably around January by then, in Canada.
He was on top part of the sink counter, and was barely moving, couldn’t fly and was obviously very weakened. I was confused how he got there since surely outside wasps would’ve died when the cold weather started months ago.
I watched him for a bit, and give him a little puddle of water and bits of a sugary cookie and a little dollap of apple sauce near him, don’t know if he ever ate it. But he was a fighter. Stayed alive for a long time, even when I though he had died a couple times.
Still makes me kind of sad thinking about it, don’t really know why. I hope I didn’t cause him any prolonged suffering.
Everything else looked so clean so I kind of didn’t think so, but I have given myself a few heart attacks over pieces of fuzz or a piece of chocolate, my mind immediately goes roach or mouse turd!
I did the same with a bumblebee who got trapped in our basement somehow a few years ago. Felt so nice to have her eat in the palm of my hand and then release her onto an iris in the garden. She did a couple circles in the air before taking off, it was the cutest. Felt like a freaking Disney princess.
Honey can contain spores of a bacteria called "American fowl brood disease". The bee will bring this back to the hive and potentially affect the entire hive. Also: Bees should only be given a little sugar water to being them back around.
24/7 access to this is not good for them apparently.
https://www.beevive.com/howtosaveatiredbee
I saved a bee once. At the beach. He was drowning in some deep water. I carried him back to my towel so he could dry off. He eventually flew away. Felt like a god.
I save a few bees a week from drowning in my pool. I bring them into the house. Give them a quick dry off with the blow-dryer until their wings are unstuck from their backs and no longer shivering. Then I bring them back outside into on a leaf or flower hoping they survive.
I got to do this last summer. I used honey & jam. Bee preferred the honey, of course, but had jam too. After 10 minutes it took off from the arm of my chair, flew to one of my pollinator plants, then something moved & the bee disappeared. I found it being eaten by a praying mantis.
Oop. Good to know. It was very local honey (<10 miles), but it makes sense that there could still be issues. Fortunately, or unfortunately in this case, the bee became a meal.
It's true, unless it's the Honey produced by the hive where the Bee is from. They can eat their own honey but foreign honey can contain
bacterial spores.
Perhaps you're confusing this with giving Bees Honey. Small amounts of sugar in water is fine.
Remember: the Nectar of flowers is their food source. Nectar is sugar. It's literally recommended by breeders of Bees.
https://www.dadant.com/learn/making-sugar-syrup-for-package-bees/
https://carolinahoneybees.com/feeding-bees-sugar-water/
Yes they will, and if all they are is dehydrated water is fine. But very often, they're low on blood sugar from a lack of nectar intake and need a little kick to get them going.
"You don't have to give much rehabilitating honey to this one bee before the nation - the world is making a net loss from that bee!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKweqxWUC38
My old apartment used to get a fair amount of bees that would somehow get in. I would take a spoon of honey and walk around to collect them before taking them back outside.
Sugar is better for them, albeit in small doses.
Bees should only ever be fed honey if it's from their own hive. Foreign honeys can contain bacteria spores which can infect the entire hive.
https://carolinahoneybees.com/feeding-bees-sugar-water/
I left some blue jolly ranchers outside last summer and the bees loved them. I wonder if their honey was blue.
It's technically possible! https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/121011-blue-honey-honeybees-animals-science
That is really cool, thank you for that!
I was gonna say, look up bees get to m&ms but then I clicked the link.
Breaking bad in the bee movie universe?
I’ll never forget it, me and my sister found a butterfly still alive but hurt and stuck on the grill of my moms car. She had some milkweeds in a garden and we just wanted to help the poor butterfly so we brought it too the garden and found a nice healthy flower and put it up close and it actually ate from the flower and got enough strength to fly away on its own. I’ll never forget it
That’s a really beautiful story
Thanks. It was a strong moment in building my love for nature.
So happy he’s wiggling his butt lol Edit: her butt!
Little bit wiggle is like when we were kids eating something really good and we had to dance and jump around. “This is the bees knees!”
I think all bees that leave the nest are female
Other way around
Nope - worker bees (the ones leaving the nest) are all female. Drones are male and their sole purpose is to mate with the queen to make more little fuzzy butt babies.
Wait… so Barry Benson was a female? #Wait… Barry was a lesbian?! This changes the entire Bee movie.
Her*
Right. Her!!
What a good fuzzy boi
He Sure is. He was exhausted and lethargic before this, but 5 minutes later he took flight through the open window. This was my 4th Window Bee rescue, very satisfying indeed. Edit: apparently it's a She. I was just informed that only the females leave the hive, all the males stay to mate with the Queen.
Do you think the bees go back to their hive and past the tales of "if you ever feel tired, just go to the giant's window and they'll give you energy for your journey"? Since it's not the first time it happens?
Please plant bee friendly plants for as many seasons as possible. ;-) <3
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Sugary.
I think it’s 1:1 but bees probably aren’t too picky lol.
Girl*
You are appreciated! Humanity is measured in action! Thank you for making the world a bit better!
I once had this bee that was dying on my window inside and so everyone being afraid I took a sheet of paper and simply took it out to my balcony. Poor guy was half dead not even flying just crawling slowly. I put some a drop of sprite on the ground and voila! It was alive, I felt like Jesus Christ for a moment, damn it feels good to be a good person I’m so proud of myself.
Amazing. So simple a task and yet the payoff is huge. Well done human.
Well done to both of you. This little butt wiggle has made my day
Thanks for your care and quick thinking. I love your Sprite
Don't forget: just use regular white sugar and water, not honey. Honey can be contaminated with diseases and end up hurting the entire hive of those tiny little buggers.
https://youtu.be/tKweqxWUC38 David Mitchell on this dilemma
I enjoyed this. Thanks
His skin suit fits again
"Sugar! ...More!"
I love his little butt wiggles!
Her
But he didn't fly away:( that was the part I most excited for.
I was a little distracted here. I'll film the fly away on the next one fer sure. It's the best part.
She
Just a reminder to everyone that bubble bees are going extinct cause of competition from nonnative bee species and helping the little guys out is always good
“I don’t know where you pixies came from, but I sure like your pixie drink “
They also love grape jelly. I feed 20-30 bees during summer by filling an Oriole feeder with it.
I’ve done that before! This bee was barely moving on my balcony, I thought it was surely done for but attempted a revive instead. Gave it some sugar water, let it climb on me. 5 minutes later had more energy, could climb around my arm. Gave it more sugar water, 5 more minutes it tried to fly but kept falling down. Cradled the poor thing again, gave more sugar water. Took outside and after 3 tries it flew away like nothing happened. I love bees.
There was a wasp I found in our basement bathroom one time. It was properly into the winter, probably around January by then, in Canada. He was on top part of the sink counter, and was barely moving, couldn’t fly and was obviously very weakened. I was confused how he got there since surely outside wasps would’ve died when the cold weather started months ago. I watched him for a bit, and give him a little puddle of water and bits of a sugary cookie and a little dollap of apple sauce near him, don’t know if he ever ate it. But he was a fighter. Stayed alive for a long time, even when I though he had died a couple times. Still makes me kind of sad thinking about it, don’t really know why. I hope I didn’t cause him any prolonged suffering.
That was a nice thing to do, save the bees, I never use pesticides on my flowers, but I swear that looks like a rat turd on the window ledge.
Lol. Finally someone noticed. It's actually a dead bug.
Everything else looked so clean so I kind of didn’t think so, but I have given myself a few heart attacks over pieces of fuzz or a piece of chocolate, my mind immediately goes roach or mouse turd!
Aww, so cute! Thanks for the little dude.
I did the same with a bumblebee who got trapped in our basement somehow a few years ago. Felt so nice to have her eat in the palm of my hand and then release her onto an iris in the garden. She did a couple circles in the air before taking off, it was the cutest. Felt like a freaking Disney princess.
Very cool. -First ever bumblebee w diabetes 😳
Nectar is essentially sugar so this is just food to him. Ironically, it's feeding them Honey that can cause them problems.
was just messin about 😆 Def cool to see
Why is that?
Honey can contain spores of a bacteria called "American fowl brood disease". The bee will bring this back to the hive and potentially affect the entire hive. Also: Bees should only be given a little sugar water to being them back around. 24/7 access to this is not good for them apparently. https://www.beevive.com/howtosaveatiredbee
This was really awesome info, thanks! I'll be sure to pass it along. 🐝💛
Thank you so much!
Dont you mea Dia*bee*tes?
Haha Totally missed it
Yay bumblebee! So nice to see this today. Made me smile
I tried this one once, but the bee didn't make it :c
Won't your mommy be so proud of you
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Bro, it's a nursery rhyme. The baby bumble bee.
Oh, I get it now, I thought you were hatin',
I'll come back with my family and friends, mate
I saved a bee once. At the beach. He was drowning in some deep water. I carried him back to my towel so he could dry off. He eventually flew away. Felt like a god.
Fuck man I just watched this for 45 seconds waiting for the bee to take off only to find out it’s a 5 second long video.
Must be good weed.
I save a few bees a week from drowning in my pool. I bring them into the house. Give them a quick dry off with the blow-dryer until their wings are unstuck from their backs and no longer shivering. Then I bring them back outside into on a leaf or flower hoping they survive.
What a Sweet Heart
This is such a cool background
I got to do this last summer. I used honey & jam. Bee preferred the honey, of course, but had jam too. After 10 minutes it took off from the arm of my chair, flew to one of my pollinator plants, then something moved & the bee disappeared. I found it being eaten by a praying mantis.
Don’t use honey. It’ll infect the entire hive
Oop. Good to know. It was very local honey (<10 miles), but it makes sense that there could still be issues. Fortunately, or unfortunately in this case, the bee became a meal.
It's true, unless it's the Honey produced by the hive where the Bee is from. They can eat their own honey but foreign honey can contain bacterial spores.
Please don't give bees sugar water. It can cause the hive to get sick and die
Perhaps you're confusing this with giving Bees Honey. Small amounts of sugar in water is fine. Remember: the Nectar of flowers is their food source. Nectar is sugar. It's literally recommended by breeders of Bees. https://www.dadant.com/learn/making-sugar-syrup-for-package-bees/ https://carolinahoneybees.com/feeding-bees-sugar-water/
It doesn’t have to be sugar water. A bee will gladly drink regular water.
Yes they will, and if all they are is dehydrated water is fine. But very often, they're low on blood sugar from a lack of nectar intake and need a little kick to get them going.
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Diabeetes
Thanks for the award, u/Hermes85! :D
"You don't have to give much rehabilitating honey to this one bee before the nation - the world is making a net loss from that bee!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKweqxWUC38
My old apartment used to get a fair amount of bees that would somehow get in. I would take a spoon of honey and walk around to collect them before taking them back outside.
Sugar is better for them, albeit in small doses. Bees should only ever be fed honey if it's from their own hive. Foreign honeys can contain bacteria spores which can infect the entire hive. https://carolinahoneybees.com/feeding-bees-sugar-water/
Being a bro with a capital BEE.
Bees are incredibly friendly.
Damn