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Decided to do something good and water some plants in the garden. Stupidly I just sprinkled over the flowers and soaked a big bumble bee.
He clung, soaked, to the flower.
Asked advice from neighbours - "It's warm, leave him and he will dry out".
Next morning, bee still clinging to the flower, still soaked, but still clinging to life.
Took matters into my own hands.
I checked the bee box (vacant by any bee since purchase 2 years ago)
This bee box is a small wooden box with a top that opens and a small bee-sized exit near the bottom.
Anyway..gently relocated the woodlouse colony and the single tiny snail.
Put fresh hay in the bee box.
Then snipped the flower the bee was clinging onto.
Put flower with bee into bee box, then put some drops of sugar solution on some of the petals.
Result - checked a few hours later and no bee. No dead bee either. Maybe for once a creature has survived a well meaning encounter with me.
Dried out, had a bit of sugar and made his way back to the hive?
The same tiny snail managed to get back in btw.
No pigeon update but still optimistic.
I do my best with wildlife but it often goes wrong. Hope 2014 is my year.
He clung, soaked, to the flower.
Asked advice from neighbours - "It's warm, leave him and he will dry out".
Next morning, bee still clinging to the flower, still soaked, but still clinging to life.
Took matters into my own hands.
I checked the bee box (vacant by any bee since purchase 2 years ago)
This bee box is a small wooden box with a top that opens and a small bee-sized exit near the bottom.
Anyway..gently relocated the woodlouse colony and the single tiny snail.
Put fresh hay in the bee box.
Then snipped the flower the bee was clinging onto.
Put flower with bee into bee box, then put some drops of sugar solution on some of the petals.
Result - checked a few hours later and no bee. No dead bee either. Maybe for once a creature has survived a well meaning encounter with me.
Dried out, had a bit of sugar and made his way back to the hive?
The same tiny snail managed to get back in btw.
No pigeon update but still optimistic.
I do my best with wildlife but it often goes wrong. Hope 2014 is my year.
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if you'd like to talk it over, give me a buzz
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on the Bat phone
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Arthur Askey sends his love.
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*yawn*
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catch a fly
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catch a fly
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I wonder at what number of replies this sad lad jerks himself off at, 50. 100?
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****r, goodness knows how you and Slippy get on.
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nice story and good work parachute.
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thanks Kenny
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kenny, don't be a coont all your life
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I don't have as much time as most betfarians have.
I love nature though, try looking crags |
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How much pocket money does taxi owe you, parachute?
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taxi?
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Birdman, TGM, SEEDGIRL
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I, too, rescued an injured bee from the garden when I was a small boy; it became a pet and I loved it dearly. Unfortunately, being unsure of how much to feed him, the bee grew to gigantic proportions, killed my grandmother and demolished the house in making its escape.
I've found it hard to warm to them since, but well done anyway. |
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Nice one PokerDane, this forum should have a like button.
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pish and bollocks and get stuffed.
best regards |
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Got the ****
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I'm sorry, I have more important things to deal with tonight and tomorrow.
Life and death stuff. I wish you all the best in the meantime. Thanks |
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Thank you very much, crags. I'm here all week.
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^^^ typical troll language. It's people like this and sad people who support him(kenny for example) who ruin forums. This one may be beyond saving,though we should still try or the decent posters that have left will never return.
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Cheers poker, my last post was obviously not aimed at your good self!
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why don't you live in the real world?
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You've been busted, parachute, good and proper.Though I do feel sorry for you, you won't be missed.Maybe taxi will say a few words in your favour?
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kiss kiss crags
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crags you seem to be interested in me.
Is it a man on man thing? |
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have I hit a personal thing?
I can be discreet. |
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Crags
Stay alive |
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night sweetie
sweet dreams crags |
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Huge bee in the house tonight, watched part of a Star Trek movie with me then left via the French windows.
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save the bees ,theyre dying out - and besides , you morons need them to survive
 well done parachute,nice work |
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would love a hive -but apparantly my garden is too small
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Great thread
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parachute is one of the best wind-up merchants on here and I've warmed to him over the last year
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Only a bit, mind
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"He clung, soaked, to the flower."
1.01 at this time of year it'll be a "she", and perhaps a queen if it was big. So, in a way, you're a sort of knight in shining armour, for bees. I hope being such a hero doesn't go to your head |