how do i help this little guy? found on my way to work – stole some flowers from Sainsbury and tried to make it drink sugar water.what else can i do before i go home?
Leave it some cash and a SIM card with a tenner on it
Try soaking a piece of kitchen roll with the sugar water, it can be easier for them to drink from than a spoon
Mouth to proboscis resuscitation.
Try something super sweet in liquid form—something like an oasis drink may help that’s not carbonated. Alternatively, a capful of water with some brown sugar from a coffee shop.
You could put it on a flower – a dandelion would do.
Bees only live a couple of months. When its time comes, you can’t do anything.
Bless your heart for helping him/her. Put it somewhere tucked away outside, ideally in a garden by flowers, with some sugar water soaked kitchen roll. Not much else you can do after that, it may have just come to the end of its natural life.
Call an Ambeelance.
You have a kind soul. For future reference, you might want one of these.
I once gave one a little bit of Coca-Cola, and they perked up almost immediately.
You are very kind for trying.
I had this recently, it can take them a while to revive so give them the nectar/sugar water and if you can find a sunny warm spot, pop him there.
I try to save every stunned bee I find but my success rate isn’t great.
Is he attempting to drink the water?
From personal experience there’s usually one of 3 reasons a bee will be lethargic. First is they’re cold in which case letting them warm up on your hand is usually enough. Second they’re dehydrated so a drop of sugar water or just water will perk them up. Third they’re exhausted or injured unfortunately for these guys the chance of survival is slim. If they need fluids or food they’ll head for it quickly, if its warmth they’re after they will press their body down against you hand for better heat transfer. Just bee gentle with them nice slow movements and don’t make them feel trapped and you’ll be fine!
Bees have a 6 week lifespan dude. Sometimes you can’t help her.
Can you give them honey to help them? Genuine question
I find when they’re lethargic like that they’ve likely been poisoned. I’ve noticed it at places I go where people use pesticides, they move slow and seem disoriented, don’t go far and they expire not long after
Would imagine flowers from the store come standard with stuff sprayed on it (not saying you’re a murderer or anything, likely happened before you found mr bee)
Good on you for trying <3
Sometimes what they need is warmth. It’s why they like the insides of our windows. You could hold it in your hand or put it in the sun. But really it could just be it’s time.
Not much, it’s a bumblebee, their lifespan is nearly over this time of the year.
Generally, when a bee curls up like this – they’re not long for this world. You’ve done all you can.
Have you got a shoe? I’m joking
Don’t make sugar “water”
Dissolve sugar in a tiny amount of water to make a thick paste consistency
Sadly the flowers are most likely covered in pesticides, but I appreciate your thinking. A wildflower (whatever you find out in nature, or even what most of us would consider weeds, like dandelions) would be more beneficial.
Don’t give up yet. Follow the advice given and wait and see. I rescued a big bumble bee that I found caught in an old spider web. It had a broken antenna. I cared for it over a couple of days. I was sure it would die as it didn’t move much. I kept bringing it flowers and sugar water and to my surprise it perked up and completely recovered. We named it Bumbledore. Even if it does die, at least you would have made its final days comfortable.
She’s cold!! Warm her up in a shoe box with some sugar water and she’ll be ready to fly in a bit.
Bees have a finite amount of beats of their wings until they give out, and their lifespan is like a few months or something even disregarding that. If heating it up or feeding it didn’t work it’s most likely just hurt or done and either way in the process of signing out.
Nice of you to bee nice though.
I tried exactly this yesterday with water and a spoon, and she wouldn’t take to flowers with a massive trumpet either.
Absolutely loved the lavender though, hopped from flower to flower and eventually flew away.
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Let it bee
Leave it some cash and a SIM card with a tenner on it
Try soaking a piece of kitchen roll with the sugar water, it can be easier for them to drink from than a spoon
Mouth to proboscis resuscitation.
Try something super sweet in liquid form—something like an oasis drink may help that’s not carbonated. Alternatively, a capful of water with some brown sugar from a coffee shop.
You could put it on a flower – a dandelion would do.
Bees only live a couple of months. When its time comes, you can’t do anything.
Bless your heart for helping him/her. Put it somewhere tucked away outside, ideally in a garden by flowers, with some sugar water soaked kitchen roll. Not much else you can do after that, it may have just come to the end of its natural life.
Call an Ambeelance.
You have a kind soul. For future reference, you might want one of these.
[https://wastesmiths.co.uk/saviour-bees/](https://wastesmiths.co.uk/saviour-bees/)
I once gave one a little bit of Coca-Cola, and they perked up almost immediately.
You are very kind for trying.
I had this recently, it can take them a while to revive so give them the nectar/sugar water and if you can find a sunny warm spot, pop him there.
I try to save every stunned bee I find but my success rate isn’t great.
Is he attempting to drink the water?
From personal experience there’s usually one of 3 reasons a bee will be lethargic. First is they’re cold in which case letting them warm up on your hand is usually enough. Second they’re dehydrated so a drop of sugar water or just water will perk them up. Third they’re exhausted or injured unfortunately for these guys the chance of survival is slim. If they need fluids or food they’ll head for it quickly, if its warmth they’re after they will press their body down against you hand for better heat transfer. Just bee gentle with them nice slow movements and don’t make them feel trapped and you’ll be fine!
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You stole flowers from Sainsbury’s for a bee?!
Bees have a 6 week lifespan dude. Sometimes you can’t help her.
Can you give them honey to help them? Genuine question
I find when they’re lethargic like that they’ve likely been poisoned. I’ve noticed it at places I go where people use pesticides, they move slow and seem disoriented, don’t go far and they expire not long after
Would imagine flowers from the store come standard with stuff sprayed on it (not saying you’re a murderer or anything, likely happened before you found mr bee)
Good on you for trying <3
Sometimes what they need is warmth. It’s why they like the insides of our windows. You could hold it in your hand or put it in the sun. But really it could just be it’s time.
Not much, it’s a bumblebee, their lifespan is nearly over this time of the year.
Generally, when a bee curls up like this – they’re not long for this world. You’ve done all you can.
Have you got a shoe? I’m joking
Don’t make sugar “water”
Dissolve sugar in a tiny amount of water to make a thick paste consistency
Sadly the flowers are most likely covered in pesticides, but I appreciate your thinking. A wildflower (whatever you find out in nature, or even what most of us would consider weeds, like dandelions) would be more beneficial.
Don’t give up yet. Follow the advice given and wait and see. I rescued a big bumble bee that I found caught in an old spider web. It had a broken antenna. I cared for it over a couple of days. I was sure it would die as it didn’t move much. I kept bringing it flowers and sugar water and to my surprise it perked up and completely recovered. We named it Bumbledore. Even if it does die, at least you would have made its final days comfortable.
She’s cold!! Warm her up in a shoe box with some sugar water and she’ll be ready to fly in a bit.
Bees have a finite amount of beats of their wings until they give out, and their lifespan is like a few months or something even disregarding that. If heating it up or feeding it didn’t work it’s most likely just hurt or done and either way in the process of signing out.
Nice of you to bee nice though.
I tried exactly this yesterday with water and a spoon, and she wouldn’t take to flowers with a massive trumpet either.
Absolutely loved the lavender though, hopped from flower to flower and eventually flew away.
I’m sorry you stole flowers?
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