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dont forget the bees in your garden on these warm days leave a saucer with some sugary water in to help them tired one's to regain some strength love seeing bees in the garden we are lucky where we are for some reason we get 100s of bumble bees and they really do like the sugary water ....go on be bee friendly such important little beauties ... |
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A plate of grated apple with water is good.
We had a bird box in the table outside the back door that I was going to clean out but before I had chance it was taken over by tree bumble bees. |
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"dont forget the bees in your garden on these warm days leave a saucer with some sugary water in to help them tired one's to regain some strength love seeing bees in the garden we are lucky where we are for some reason we get 100s of bumble bees and they really do like the sugary water ....go on be bee friendly such important little beauties ... "
Please please please DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!
Sick bees naturally move away from the hive so as not to infect the entire colony. When u give sugar /energy to a diseased bee you are sending it back to the colony and risk killing thousands of more bees than the one you should have let die. Do the bees a fave leave them they know far more than we do about looking after each other. |
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"dont forget the bees in your garden on these warm days leave a saucer with some sugary water in to help them tired one's to regain some strength love seeing bees in the garden we are lucky where we are for some reason we get 100s of bumble bees and they really do like the sugary water ....go on be bee friendly such important little beauties ...
Please please please DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!
Sick bees naturally move away from the hive so as not to infect the entire colony. When u give sugar /energy to a diseased bee you are sending it back to the colony and risk killing thousands of more bees than the one you should have let die. Do the bees a fave leave them they know far more than we do about looking after each other. "
How do I know what a sick bee is? |
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"dont forget the bees in your garden on these warm days leave a saucer with some sugary water in to help them tired one's to regain some strength love seeing bees in the garden we are lucky where we are for some reason we get 100s of bumble bees and they really do like the sugary water ....go on be bee friendly such important little beauties ...
Please please please DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!
Sick bees naturally move away from the hive so as not to infect the entire colony. When u give sugar /energy to a diseased bee you are sending it back to the colony and risk killing thousands of more bees than the one you should have let die. Do the bees a fave leave them they know far more than we do about looking after each other. "
I thought bumblebees were solitary? |
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When I used to live out in the sticks, I used to have a mini orchard at the top of my garden (apple, pear, plum, cherry trees), there was a couple who lived across the road that had 2 hives in their garden. It was a battle of wits as to who got the fruit first   |
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"dont forget the bees in your garden on these warm days leave a saucer with some sugary water in to help them tired one's to regain some strength love seeing bees in the garden we are lucky where we are for some reason we get 100s of bumble bees and they really do like the sugary water ....go on be bee friendly such important little beauties ...
Please please please DO NOT DO THIS!!!!!
Sick bees naturally move away from the hive so as not to infect the entire colony. When u give sugar /energy to a diseased bee you are sending it back to the colony and risk killing thousands of more bees than the one you should have let die. Do the bees a fave leave them they know far more than we do about looking after each other.
I thought bumblebees were solitary? "
Some bees are but not bumble bees or honey bees. They live in colonies. |
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I’ve got a few dishes around.
Good idea above with the Apple. 
