Bee Story
LesleyK
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Yesterday morning I found a bumblebee crawling around in the bedroom. I caught it in a container and put it outside in the sun on a Pulmonaria. When I looked 10 minutes later it hadn't moved at all. I remember reading somewhere on here that sugar water or honey could help.
As soon as I placed a drop of honey on the flower directly in front of the bee it immediately started to eat it and within 15 minutes had taken to the air and was flitting from flower to flower. It made my day
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Many thanks to the person who gave this tip
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hope he's busy pollinating lots of your flowers tomorrow in return
I really hope he/she has chicky
Thank you so much Rb. Sorry I didn't remember who it was but you are responsible for saving a life
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if it was early morning,you didn't say, it might have been best to leave it indoors until it warmed up a bit outside.
It was lovely and warm Hosta. I sat outside with my coffee to keep an eye on it and other bees were buzzing about. There was even a peacock butterfly
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I often just leave them on the palm of my hand and breath very gently onto them to warm them up further.
Gives me a warm fuzzy feeling when they're warm enough to fly off.
There was a male buff ( B terrestris) couldn't find its way out on my greenhouse which has no nectar this afternoon I turned the pressure sprayer near it so it could drink, managed to get it to cling onto a stick and poked the stick outside through a broken pane. I think it would have soon run out of puff.
Goes to look for something in flower that can be potted and put in the greenhouse.