Garden Wildlife UK

He's behind the sofa

greg wrote:I'm off to the sunny New Forest tomorrow for a week. Hope I can get a Wi-Fi connection to keep in touch.

We're going again in July and then again in September ! Different places each time, but in the general area of Fordingbridge. The dogs love it!

You've made me think, we don't have a doggie thread. I think I shall start one, even though I don't have a dog

My good deed for the day This tiny Bumble Bee was in the bottom of the moth trap this morning. A friendly fellow who readily posed for a photograph. Then I realised, this was not how Bees behave. It had been trapped and was exhausted. So I gave it a feed of honey ( what else for a Bee ! ).
Photo 3 shows it tucking in to the honey. Within half an hour it had flown away

JooMoo wrote:You've made me think, we don't have a doggie thread. I think I shall start one, even though I don't have a dog

What will you call it - WOOF! WOOF!

I found an exhausted bee once just lying on the grass. Gave it sugar water and it was fine shortly afterwards.

Placido wrote:I found an exhausted bee once just lying on the grass. Gave it sugar water and it was fine shortly afterwards.

It seems that sugar water is the only thing you should give a bee. Honey may carry diseases Now I feel guilty

WELL !!! I didn't know that. Now I won't have to buy a jar of honey (which I was absolutely intending to do !!).

" ... Honey, oh, sugar, sugar ... "

"... and you got me wantin' you."
The Archies

I'd stopped listening to pop music by 1969 but somehow I remember this. Catchy, innit ??