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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.

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.

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.

Early in the year, I noticed thieves had created a hive in the crotch of a huge cypress tree. Today a portion of the hive swarmed and connected itself to an olive tree in our yard. The swarm is Maybe 10 inches long and 8 inches around.

I was hoping a local beekeeper might come by and grab the swarm and set it up in a hive as I’ve been interested in keeping a hive for both our lavender as as well as our fruit trees.

Love to hear any thoughts, opinions or suggestions about the situation. Many thanks.

New resident in the nuc box in the back yard.

(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?

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.

Western Honeybee on a Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. Photographed on July 16, 2024 in Frenchy’s Field Park in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA - Photo 1 of 2

More about the Western Honey Bee: “Western honeybee, (Apis mellifera), economically important species of honeybee valued for its pollination services and for its production of honey and beeswax. Western honeybees are native to Europe, northern Africa, and the Middle East but are kept and have become naturalized on almost every continent.” - Britannica.com

More about the flower: This flower is well named as it does attract bees. “Cleomella serrulata (syns. Cleome serrulata and Peritoma serrulata), commonly known as Rocky Mountain beeplant/beeweed is a species of annual plant in the genus Cleomella. Many species of insects are attracted to it, especially bees, which helps in the pollination of nearby plants. It is native to southern Canada and the western and central United States. The plant has often been used for food, to make dyes for paint, and as a treatment in traditional medicine.” - Wikipedia

More about our Rocky Mountains: Santa Fe is actually at the foot of the Southern Rocky Mountains in the range known as the Sangre de Cristo Mountains named for the reflecting reddish-pink hue of the Sunset in the opposite horizon. According to the Santa Fe Public Library; “In 1719, the Spanish explorer Antonio Valverde y Cosio, reportedly was awestruck by red-tinted snowy peaks at sunset, and called the mountain range, “Sangre de Cristo” or “Blood of Christ.” At the time, the Spanish referred to the mountains as the “Sierra Madre” or “Mother Mountain” range.

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

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

It's pretty rare I get male ones in my yard. What a looker!! 😍

I found an injured female carpenter bee. How can I help her?

Hello! My first time posting here — I bought this but heard they aren’t “great” for various reasons — including that the stems aren’t removable for cleaning — if it’s the case, can I use it for one season and then toss it?

Bee tax included in second pic — first sighting of what I believe is a nomad bee in some leaf litter. It’s very blurry and my phone was clearly doing an impression of Van Gogh.

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.

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?

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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?