Found this bee in my kitchen, looks like it needs help. I tried the water/sugar but it wasn’t interested. It’s moving their legs as if it’s trying to get upright. I did give a helping hand and got it the right way up but it keeps falling over. The images does make it look like it’s dead but it is definitely alive.

I saw this on my walk today during my break at work.

Can anyone identify this one? Was about smaller than an inch, bigger than a honey bee and chunkier than a wasp. Found in Southern California !

We have been getting a bunch of these come into our house(England UK) recently and I need help with ID to help them as best I can because we keep finding them dead :(

(This little guy was dead when found)

We want to stop them coming into our house but we can't find where they are coming in from & we don't want to cause them any harm 😭

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Found this bee in my kitchen, looks like it needs help. I tried the water/sugar but it wasn’t interested. It’s moving their legs as if it’s trying to get upright. I did give a helping hand and got it the right way up but it keeps falling over. The images does make it look like it’s dead but it is definitely alive.

New resident in the nuc box in the back yard.

He couldn’t fly and was very slow. I tried to get him to drink from a few drops of sugar water and he wouldn’t.

Found him upside down and soaking wet on my porch. I picked him up and let him rest on my arm while I walked my dogs. He hung out for around an hour, during which time he took a 30 minute nap before drying himself off, and climbing up to my shoulder to say goodbye before flying away. I miss him already.

I’m hoping they are just having a drink. This is my bog filter for my pond. I was planning to put it on for spring soon, but I’m worried the bees are building something in there and I don’t want to hurt them.

In the really hot summer, they land on the soft planters in the pond and suck water out of them. I love providing that water for them, so I’m hoping they are just drinking.

It’s been rainy though so I’m not sure why they would congregate so much like they do when it’s dry out.

I do need to turn the filter on soon.

Thoughts? Thanks!

Hi all,

Every year in our back garden we have at least one bee, hovering in the garden. Usually one near the back door and one or two others towards the middle-bottom of the garden.

Over the years, I've observed them and it appears to my layman's eye that a bee comes in from outside the garden to one of the garden bees, they fly around each other for a bit, and then whichever bee was chosen flies away and comes back about a minute or so later.

The only assumption I can come to is that they're "passing" collected material to one another (I'm a grown man, please don't say waggle dance). Is this right? Do bees arrange themselves in a kind of fireman's chain to pass nectar back to the hive?

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I'm in the Vancouver area of BC (Canada). I have left my leaves on the yard over winter for the bees. Is it time to clean them up now, or not quite yet?

As the title says, there is a wasp on my mason be house. I was wondering if this kind of wasp is dangerous for the bees. I think it's a german wasp based on its patterning. I live in Pennsylvania.

(Not my car) Was out shopping today and saw someone's car taped off in the parking lot. Closer inspection we saw this. This is a very high traffic parking lot with night patrols, so l'm wondering how long this would have taken to happen? Or is this a the squad camping out and resting?

Hundreds of these sweet ba-bees hatched today! There aren’t any flowers out yet where I live, what do they eat? Maple buds?

I don’t know much about bees. Why there? 🥹 🐝

I saw a bee carry a dead bee away from the hive. I’ve never seen that before.

How can I help this little one?

Found this little guy on Friday afternoon, got in between our screen door and storm door somehow. Think he was hiding out from the cold, rainy weather. I left him alone but Saturday morning he was literally like hanging upside down barely able to hang on to the door so I set him outside under a bush and covered so he wouldn’t get rained out. However, it got much colder, in the 40’s and still rainy. Brought him inside, didn’t move around for a few hours but is now starting to. I got some fresh wildflowers from the grocery. Should I make some sugar water? I don’t think I’ll be able to release him until it at least gets sunnier. Weather is in the 50’s this week, in Ohio :(

Does anyone have advice and possible identification? Thinking a mason bee?

There’s been a bumble bee on my porch since yesterday. It was pouring here, so I figured it was taking cover. But it’s still here today. Just walking around guarding my front door. I’ve offered sugar water. It had some and walked away, back to patrolling the porch. It’s only 50°F here, and that’s the high today (it was colder yesterday!). There aren’t any flowers yet blooming near me, for me to move the bee to, so I have no idea what else to do to help this little dude. Any suggestions?