Rachel's Journal

To cold for them,,thats wrong!Them need heat and sun,for getting energy after cold winter.

Dick, I think you are rivalling Spider for the position of resident wit on this site : )

Maybe that's it, Liga. It is not the behaviour of a healthy happy bee!

Rachel, hubby reckons the bee needs sugar, if you put 1/4 teaspoon sugar on a spoon and dilute it with tepid water and bring it to the bee, he should suck up the sugar and fly away.This is something he does if he see a bee in distress and it works.

I think, this little friend will be all right, when it will be warmer. He's not dead, just sleeping :) Insects are much more resistant, than we can imagine.

I have noticed a few large bees buzzing around my garden they don't seem to have this lethargic condition they just keep flitting into my Hellebores and daffs.

Conbination of cold and sugar makes sense.

I have one like that who has been hanging around the door of my workshop for a week, he had a close shave with a cricket ball the other day and the game had to be abandoned.

:))) Dick, and this Bumble Bee flies to the Magic Kingdom of tsar Saltan :)))

Dick you are rather amusing I must say. The cricket bat nearly caught him as well, for unlike Rachel's one this fellow was constantly flying  around the door. I had to forcibly eject him from my workshop on several occasions, for although he was not buzzing he did occasion me to feel alarmed by his divebombing technique.

My bee was gone by the time I went back this evening. I hope he is okay. I will remember the sugar tip, thanks Ruth.