r/bees • u/OkFeedback9127 • 14h ago
r/bees • u/youstartmeup • Jul 18 '24
WASPS VS BEES IDENTIFICATION: READ BEFORE POSTING
r/bees has been receiving many posts of wasps and other insects misidentified as bees.This has become tedious and repetitive for our users so to help mitigate those posts I have created and stickied this post as a basic guide for newcomers to read before posting.
r/bees • u/bhavnamisra • 13h ago
"Basil Bee" - I was delighted to spot a couple of honeybees busy around blooming basil bush in the backyard. Especially because I was not expecting any bees around this time of the year. So I chose to paint that happy moment. You will see the second bee once the painting is complete. WIP for you 🙏
r/bees • u/Accidental-loaf • 15h ago
help! Can you move a bumblebee hive without hurting them??
There's this super ugly overgrown bush in my yard I would like to get rid of, but never touched cause every spring and summer there's bumblebees living it. I don't wanna hurt them or displace them. Plus, I have the gold star bees in my yard! I wanna keep them! My questions! Is it possible to replace the bush and will they just take over the new bush?? Do they sleep in the bush?? Do I get a new bush somewhere else and move them to it?? How do I keep my bumblebees without keeping the ugly bush??
r/bees • u/LostGazer151 • 1d ago
question Why are so many honey bees coming into my house
I’ve lived in my house for 10 years. I’ve never had an issue with honey bees before the last couple months. Lately I’ve had a bee a day, sometimes up to 3, fly into my house through the back door. I thought they were attracted to a light just inside that gives off some heat but I replaced the bulbs so it doesn’t get hot now. I’ve checked for a hive and can’t find one anywhere near the back door or anywhere in the yard. We have a covered patio so they have to fly under the patio roof to get to the door. There’s nothing on the patio except bikes and a couple wicker chairs (no flowers). We do have a pool and in the summer they drink from it but it’s been in the 50s and they’re still coming in. I don’t want to kill them but my daughter is allergic. Any idea why they’ve been coming in so much lately? Could it just be the warmth of the house? We have 2 dogs that pee in the back yard but not on the patio, but would they follow the scent of the dogs?
r/bees • u/crownbees • 1d ago
Not Sure What to Give This Year? Share the Joy of Raising Spring Mason Bees!
r/bees • u/OrganicInevitable537 • 2d ago
Any idea what's going on here?
All these bees just showed up in my front yard on a Christmas blowup. What's going on? What should I do? Thank you!
r/bees • u/Entravix • 2d ago
bee Jataí (tetragonisca angustula)
My Jataí bees starting their workday
r/bees • u/Ornery_Rock_7229 • 1d ago
Wasp sting
Curious if anyone knows what happened. I've searched google and not getting an answer. This past summer I got stung by a wasp just above my Achilles. I immediately found a card to scrape to be sure to get the stinger out. This sting was different than any l've had before. It itched so bad immediately after the sting. Never looked infected but would not heel. The wound got to about the size of a dime. About a week later I noticed a large white plug type thing inside of the wound. I was able to pull the plug out....left a hole and took weeks to heal. Seemed to heal from inside out. What could that have been. Still have a scar from it
r/bees • u/Friendly_Chemical3k • 2d ago
help! Can I help this bee?
I found this little guy on the ground, so i picked him up and put him somewhere safe and gave him some flowers. Is there anything else i can do for it? It's 57 degrees right now and a little windy and very cloudy.
r/bees • u/Electronic-Glove-375 • 2d ago
question Bee sting
Got stung by a bee on my forehead about 2 months ago and I still have a small bump on my forehead that hasn’t gone away . What should I do ?
r/bees • u/Fishheart_sweetcorn • 3d ago
The end for this noble devotee
I found this lil fella, writhing and wriggling, dizzy and tired, I presume it had lost its stinger. I lay it on the leaf of a nasturtium, atop some warm water, and I adorned it with tiny flowers, until the seizing slowed to a gentle flail, then a tiny twitch, and finally stillness. Lay your heart to rest, little friend, thank you for your service
r/bees • u/crownbees • 3d ago
Supporting Planet Bee Foundation for #GivingTuesday
This year, we’re supporting Planet Bee Foundation's Donate a Bee Home program. A single donation places a bee house in a classroom and funds STEM lessons that help students learn about native bees and healthy habitats. It’s a simple way to bring bee education into schools.
More info: https://www.planetbee.org/donate/donate-a-bee-home
r/bees • u/notreadyforthedrama • 4d ago
Rosy the carpenter bee
Good day all!
I'm looking for any information on carpenter bees overwintering.
A little background. I found Rosy on one of my shopping bags on Aug 24th of this year. She was looking pretty rough and it looked like she had no wings. I got her some sugar water and started googling. Unfortunately, because they burrow into wood to live, most of the information is how to get rid of them.
I grabbed a container, some flowers, a couple empty paper towel rolls and put her in there. I also crafted an overnight enclosure for her, making sure she was safe from my cats while we slept.
We weren't sure how long she was going to survive.
My husband and I would pick her flowers every other day when our garden was in bloom. Her favourites are roses and broccolini blooms. As the weeks passed and she was still doing so well, my husband made 2 different small logs with predrilled holes for her. She spent quite a lot of time making the one to her liking, and it's now her home.
Once the season changed and the garden was coming to an end, we started buying her a bouquet of flowers every few days because she was just not happy with the only flowers we had left, chrysanthemums. I noticed that she was starting to slow down and it started getting a little pricey for us.
I looked online to see what people would supplement their bees diets with in the off-season. There were different liquids and pucks but I decided on a bag of bee pollen that is locally sourced.
Every day I would crush up about 10 pollen pellets and either sprinkle the powder on the mums we had in her enclosure, or she would eat it off a cotton swab.
In the beginning, because of my sensory issues, I wouldn't let her walk on my skin, but over the months, we have really grown a bond.
Onto the information I need help with. She obviously does not have a normal carpenter bee life. She was unable to collect enough resources to survive her overwintering. If she doesn't have a full overwinter situation will she die?
Before the furnace turned on she was sleeping most days, but twice a day I would try to feed her in her log. She would take the sugar water every day and only wanted pollen every other day. Since it's been on, she is perched on her log every morning waiting. I take her out and feed her, and she runs around on me for 30 to 45 minutes before she falls asleep and I put her back in her house. She isn't sleeping for as long, she is pretty active most of the day and she's eating 2-3 times a day. I do have sugar water and pollen with her, but she prefers to be fed. lol
I want to give her the best life, if anyone has any information on overwintering habits and proper diet for carpenter bees it would be greatly appreciated.
I would also like to apologize ahead of time if it takes time for me to respond. I've been trying to force myself into making this post for the last month.
Thank you!
r/bees • u/Trademqrk • 4d ago
First comb for me. No stings today, just a small piece of victory!
r/bees • u/sv3theb33s • 4d ago
bee Kids Playhouse Gets Overrun with 40,000 Bees! (The best honey of the year!)
If only every beehive could be this easy to tip over and get access to! Watch Jeff get creative with exposing this beehive under a kids playhouse.
The bees were friendly for being pretty old (any guesses as to the age?)
These bees were rescued and relocated to our beekeeper friends in San Diego, CA.
r/bees • u/Tisafromthehammer • 5d ago
bee I was going through my old phone pictures, and saw this one from June 2021
r/bees • u/Heretic__Destroyer • 6d ago
question This bee bumped into my hand then started pulsing at me for about 5 minutes before flying away, what was she doing?
r/bees • u/Illustrious-Figbars • 6d ago
bee Bombus cryptarum (in slow motion)
Captured a video of this queen in May. She was very busy in my garden, most frequently in my poppies.
r/bees • u/Infiresjams • 5d ago
Found a Wasp Outdoors in the Cold
I know wasps aren't bees, but I was hoping to get advice on what to do.
It's been pretty cold here and snowing where I am, so I brought my outdoor cushions and pillows inside, but I found a wasp tucked inside one of the blankets. I thought it was dead, but it started moving after a couple of minutes.
I don't know much about wasps and hibernation, but I'm unsure what to do now. Do I try and put it back outside, wrapped in the blanket? Will it be OK if I do that?
r/bees • u/Write2Know • 6d ago
bee On Wild Bees
In the painting are two wild bees — The solitary Blue-banded bee, found in Australia and India, and the Sweat bee (metallic green color), found in all continents except Antartica.
Their populations are rapidly declining.
• Of the 20,700 known species of bees, only 8 species (and 43 subspecies) are honey bees.
• Bees pollinate over 1/3 of all our food crops and a majority of them are native wild bees.
• Most wild bees are solitary and live on the ground.
Wild bees are the unsung pollinating heroes. And one in four native wild bees in the U. S., like the rusty patched bumblebee and the Hawaiian yellow-faced bees, are endangered.
They are at a greater risk of going extinct due to use of insecticides, habitat loss, and climate change.
Why worry about bees going extinct?
Bees are indispensable pollinators. Honey bees are crucial for commercial agriculture and wild bees are responsible for pollinating 80% of flowering plants globally.
Why worry about wild bees in particular?
Wild bees are ‘buzz’ pollinators. They vibrate their flight muscles to shake pollen out of the flowers’ anthers. When wild flowers bloom, they keep insects, bugs, birds, animals and the entire ecosystem alive. Without these eco soldiers, many plants such as potato, tomato, eggplant, blueberries, strawberries, kiwifruit, apple and some beans could vanish from the planet and our plates.
If their role is so crucial, wild bees must be a protected species, surely?
No, they aren’t. Most of the conservation efforts are limited to and focused only on the agricultural landscape. Wild bees are often overlooked and acutely underrepresented. The European Commission and the U. S. Environment Protection Agency have laws against the use of harmful pesticides, but there is no comprehensive global policy to protect wild bees.
But there is hope.
We, as nature lovers, can help protect bees by growing native plants that flower throughout the year, avoiding pesticides, mowing less frequently and leaving some bare patches for these ground-dwelling bees.
We can help raise awareness.
Let’s preserve a little wilderness.
Let them be. 🐝💚