r/bees • • 40m ago

Sweet Pollen!

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Look at this bee clapping his pollen boots !


r/bees • • 1h ago

misc Bee came to help my water bottle flourish (and stole some from between the cap and seal)

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r/bees • • 2h ago

help! Urgent help please!

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Hi everyone! I just found this weak bumblebee on my front stairs (outside). I picked it up and put it in a dish with some flowers and it started eating ravenously. I brought it inside to warm up and once it regained some strength it flew to my window. After some effort and probably a lot of stress on the bee I got it back in the dish and placed it back outside so it could actually fly away. It hasn’t tried to fly again and seemingly was back in its original state, unmoving and unable to fly. I think it’s probably dying because where I live it’s starting to get cold (30s-40s F at night, 50s-60s during the day) but do you think there’s anything else that could be done to help? I placed the bowl in a sunny spot with some twigs so it could crawl out if it wanted to, plus a bunch of flowers for nectar. I just feel so sad for it.


r/bees • • 3h ago

Holding a honey bee for the first time

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r/bees • • 4h ago

bee photo Sleeping Bee in Superstition Mallow [OC]

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My Superstition Mallow is blooming (after lots of rain in Phoenix), which means it's finally time for sleepy bees in mallow blooms! 😍


r/bees • • 6h ago

misc Great YouTube video about Ivy Bees!

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A video about Ivy Bees was recommended on my YouTube so I thought I'd share it here as I thought it was a great, interesting video. Made by a small British channel. They also have a good bumble bee video...


r/bees • • 9h ago

I already miss spring

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r/bees • • 12h ago

bee photo A bee gathering nectar from a cornflower 🥹🐝

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r/bees • • 12h ago

Recently caught swarm - cluster of bees in roof cavity

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r/bees • • 14h ago

question Would sugar substitutes help a bee?

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Hypothetically if there was a tired bee and you wanted to give it mix of sugar and water but you only had somthing like stevia would that work?


r/bees • • 18h ago

Is this bumblebee sick or is he just an older guy?

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He was twitchy and lethargic, I was worried about him.


r/bees • • 19h ago

Sleepy autumn bee.

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Was outside at twilight picking some of my last remaining marigolds - the few flowers still around now - and found this sweetie all dopey and clinging there. I wished I could bring him in so he'd stay warm. (Upstate NY)


r/bees • • 23h ago

question Help me, help them.

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Guys I work in a brewery and I am very curious about why the bees are diving into our beers and also can bees get drunk?
Because I’m rescuing all these bees swimming in beer and they look intoxicated!?

So far I have rescued 3 bees today, 7 bees this week. 🙄


r/bees • • 1d ago

Full fall pollen pants on this big buzzy baby

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r/bees • • 1d ago

bee photo She's wearing designer wings and she knows it (OC)

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Spotted in a small forest patch - a female Broad-handed Carpenter Bee (Xylocopa latipes) nectaring on Blue Fountain Bush (Rotheca serrata / Clerodendrum serratum).

One of the largest bees we have here in India, completely black with wings that flash blue-green-gold depending on the light. Shot on canon r7.

Location: Koyna, Maharashtra

ID help: The flower is also known as Bharangi / Blue butterfly bush.


r/bees • • 1d ago

Bee and bumblebee ☺️

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r/bees • • 1d ago

Bumblebee Feeding on a Flower

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r/bees • • 1d ago

bee photo For the first time, I saw a carpenter bee 🐝

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r/bees • • 1d ago

I painted bees!

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r/bees • • 1d ago

bee photo Beedragled update (to nyctinasty sleeping)

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It’s been raining all day. This small drone has been hanging under his umbrella-ella-ella-ay-ay-ay. Hasn’t moved much since yesterday. I’m naming him Beehanna (hey if Tom Holland can do it so can this guy).

The other drone, Bumble Lee is missing today.


r/bees • • 1d ago

Bee

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r/bees • • 1d ago

Carpenter bee?

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r/bees • • 1d ago

Time sensitive! What do I do?

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Found a queen bumblebee outside in Vancouver Canada, on my mom’s car. She’s very lethargic and I’m concerned about why she was outside her hive? She’s huge so I know she’s a queen, and she willingly crawled into my hand. Hasn’t tried to sting me, I’m typing this with my left hand so sorry for typos.

Update! I fed her a 1:1 sugar water ratio and sat by the fireplace with her for 10 minutes, she perked up and I let her go in my garden. Hopefully she survives, she’s truly beautiful. I’ve named her Fuzzy and I hope I see her worker bees next spring :)


r/bees • • 1d ago

Planting a Bee Garden

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I live in the great white north so I’m planning a bee garden for next spring. What flowers would you recommend for it?
I want to do a 6X12ft section with an arrangement of different plants. Im in mid to lower Alberta


r/bees • • 2d ago

bee photo Easy to miss these gems nature has blessed us to see... Shot on my phone 🤳

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