Don’t forget our bee friends drink water!
I’ve put a couple of small bowls in and around my flower beds, with small flat stones for them to sit on while they drink.
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The true hydrohomie
Especially if you live in a more arid climate. I had bees from all over my neighborhood swarming my birdbaths in the morning. Had to start adding rocks so they wouldn’t drown, but the birds didn’t like them… Eventually I ended up having to build a water feature in the back yard to keep everyone happy.
I thought about it last summer… I had spent the entire day working in my parents garden and neither saw nor heard a bee. 30 years ago I remember thinking of them as a bit of a nuisance whenever I was out there…
The comments in this thread make me happy that we have a yard full of bees despite living in suburbia. Our yard might be a bit of an island though - lots of clover in our lawn, a large cone flower bed, two decent sized rose of Sharon, two milkweed beds, the list goes on. Gotta help those pollinators out. The flowers look nice too. It doesean we have to weed some, but I couldn’t imagine a hydrangea and boxwood only landscape.
This is cute. “Wanna borrow the car?” 😂 But this is about right! I was so worried about the bees. We had berries that didn’t fruit one year because they weren’t pollinated. We never saw bees, or little wasps or anything. All the neighbors sprayed poisons everywhere but us. It was horrid. We have moved, and we’re so happy when we saw bees everywhere! We stop and admire
The overuse of pesticides is not only depressing but will probably lead to the extinction of pollinators too
Don’t let him get too close to your wife, could end up stealing yo girl quicker than Barry B Benson
Friendly reminder that yellow jackets are wasps, not bees, and if you help those little fuckers sully the good name of bees by calling them “bees” I will hire the Barry B. Benson to sue you into the stone age.
Scariest animal since I live somewhere with no hippos tbh
I am glad to have lived a full life where no one has mistaken the two, not even kids
If you see a bee that’s just crawling around or sitting and not responding to you getting close it might just be low on energy.
To help the bee, mix as much sugar as you can get to dissolve in a spoonful of water. Once it’s well mixed put drops of it in front of the bee where it can reach with it’s proboscis. I’ve found putting the mixture on a leaf and poking that under the bee’s face helps too. It might take a bit of persistence, but once it works out what it is it’ll drink it’s fill. You haven’t seen an excited bee 'til you’ve seen one fly off after that!
It’s not particularly nutritious, more akin to an energy drink than a meal, but it’ll give them enough of a boost to get to a real flower.
- with its* proboscis
- drink its* fill
