It Is Good To Be Good To Bees
We have been uploading our vacation pictures, which also means looking at old pictures as we go in an effort to do some kind of sorting. We had a little pond in front of our house about ten years ago, it was a magnet for wildlife. It was really delightful to sit on the porch and watch the critters come and grab a drink. Birds, frogs and insects were regular customers, and we got a LOT of pictures with our then-new camera. I saw that @killerwhale made bees the topic of his #killerpix contest this week and this pic was fresh in my mind. A lot of people are willing to do whatever they can to help the struggling bee population, but few know this little trick to help them safely quench their little bee thirst:
Found himself some moss and roots to stay high and dry on.
Photo taken with Fuji FinePix S8300 in the summer of 2008
They need a shallow pool, with stuff sticking up for them to stand on. There are many ways to do this, the clever gentleman who wrote the linked article is re-purposing wine corks for the task. We placed sloping rocks all along the edge of the pond so there was always a "bee ramp" where they could get a sip of water without any danger of drowning. They really are not good swimmers... A simple bird bath can be filled with rocks or marbles to achieve the same bee-bar and it really is heart warming to watch the little fellers come have a sip. You know your garden won't grow without them so make sure you offer your pollinators a nice watering hole!
That just seems funny: a bee floating on a wine cork!
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Poor fellow ran out of wine, had to move on to water...
Thank you very much!
We do this for bees and butterflies. Even hummingbirds come for a drink.
We got lots of birds, can't say I ever saw a hummingbird on our little pond though!
I use V shaped screen wire into water (usually a 5 gallon bucket) to water my bees. It keeps the mosquitoes out of the water (If they get on top of the screen, I pull it out and dump it).
They love the water, especially when it gets hot.
:)That is a great idea - they are hard working bugs, need a drinnk!
They are impressive insects! I love to watch them.
:)I was rather amazed last summer when someone told me to put rocks for landing on in my bird bath for the bees. It works rather well. I was relating how we had lost a lot of bees the last few years when he replied to plant lots of flowers known to attract bees and make sure to have water available with rocks they can land on to get a drink.
They are fascinating to watch. We had a hive box with viewing window once, that was awesome.
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