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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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I wonder at what number of replies this sad lad jerks himself off at, 50. 100?
I don't have as much time as most betfarians have.
I love nature though, try looking crags
I love nature though, try looking crags
ETC. ETC....
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.
I've found it hard to warm to them since, but well done anyway.
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
Life and death stuff.
I wish you all the best in the meantime.
Thanks
^^^ 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.
Cheers poker, my last post was obviously not aimed at your good self! 
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?
crags you seem to be interested in me.
Is it a man on man thing?
Is it a man on man thing?
Huge bee in the house tonight, watched part of a Star Trek movie with me then left via the French windows.
save the bees ,theyre dying out - and besides , you morons need them to survive 
well done parachute,nice work
well done parachute,nice work
would love a hive -but apparantly my garden is too small 
parachute is one of the best wind-up merchants on here and I've warmed to him over the last year
"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
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
I hoped we were getting an update. You know the sort of thing. I recognised it because ...... and it came to me.
Would have made a lovely ending.
Would have made a lovely ending.
Read all crag's comments on this thread. It demonstrates perfectly what a really bad egg he is.
crags • June 11, 2014 1:29 AM BST
^^^ 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.
On re-reading this you must surely see the irony of your post crags.
^^^ 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.
On re-reading this you must surely see the irony of your post crags.
It was a lovely openibg post by parachute whuch painted a nice picture. Why crags has to ridicule thread such as this beyond me, particularly as he has bird feeders. Why just birds?
Love Bees. Great when you are working in the garden and they just go about their business without annoying you.
Wasps on the other hand ....................
Wasps on the other hand ....................
Wasps would put bricks through your window if they had opposable thumbs.
Bang those plants out into your garden and pots if you havent got garden. See the butterflies and bees come round - it really is lovely.
Coachbuster - "would love a hive -but apparantly my garden is too small".
Apparently you can get hives with ones that can fly
. Hth.
Apparently you can get hives with ones that can fly
. Hth.
Our garden was designed with wild-life in mind.
Well at least that's what I tell the wife when she's nagging me to do something about it.
Is a mess but we have hedgehogs so I'm happy enough.
Well at least that's what I tell the wife when she's nagging me to do something about it.
Is a mess but we have hedgehogs so I'm happy enough.
Aka'. I once lived near a busy through road, and the garden of the house next door was overgrown to say the least.Thinking I was doing the right thing, I put them in a cardboard box and took them to the woods which was about 600 yards away and placed them not far from a stream thinking they'd be safe there.
A couple of days later I saw 2 hedgehogs in the garden next door, and I'm 90% certain there were only 2 there originally. I rang the hedgehog society or whatever it's called and she said you shouldn't have moved them in the first place! Is it possible it was the same 2, they couldn't possibly have seen where I was taking them?
A couple of days later I saw 2 hedgehogs in the garden next door, and I'm 90% certain there were only 2 there originally. I rang the hedgehog society or whatever it's called and she said you shouldn't have moved them in the first place! Is it possible it was the same 2, they couldn't possibly have seen where I was taking them?
Bumblebees build nests which are fairly small, people will have them in their garden and not even know it. You can encourage them to nest by say burying old teapots with the spout exposed. Short and stout
Without a doubt Kenny. Hedgehogs can travel further than that and still return to their nest.
Were they homing hedgehogs? Here's a good pigeon story:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_%28pigeon%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Joe_%28pigeon%29
Missed a bit!
Aka'. I once lived near a busy through road, and the garden of the house next door was overgrown to say the least. 0NE DAY i SPOTTED 2 HEDGEHOGS.Thinking I was doing the right thing, I put them in a cardboard box and took them to the woods which was about 600 yards away and placed them not far from a stream thinking they'd be safe there.
A couple of days later I saw 2 hedgehogs in the garden next door, and I'm 90% certain there were only 2 there originally. I rang the hedgehog society or whatever it's called and she said you shouldn't have moved them in the first place! Is it possible it was the same 2, they couldn't possibly have seen where I was taking them?
Aka'. I once lived near a busy through road, and the garden of the house next door was overgrown to say the least. 0NE DAY i SPOTTED 2 HEDGEHOGS.Thinking I was doing the right thing, I put them in a cardboard box and took them to the woods which was about 600 yards away and placed them not far from a stream thinking they'd be safe there.
A couple of days later I saw 2 hedgehogs in the garden next door, and I'm 90% certain there were only 2 there originally. I rang the hedgehog society or whatever it's called and she said you shouldn't have moved them in the first place! Is it possible it was the same 2, they couldn't possibly have seen where I was taking them?
We had a Starling nest in our garden shed.
Was a nightmare when using the shed and some stuff we couldn't access whilst in there.
The birds wer okay with us coming in and out though, even the young.
Was a nightmare when using the shed and some stuff we couldn't access whilst in there.
The birds wer okay with us coming in and out though, even the young.
I've been invaded by bees recently in the back garden, thistles have sprung up all over the place. I've no idea why the thistles are there as I didn't knowingly plant them but the bumble bees are all over them and I like that. Still haven't seen a butterfly this year though.
The OP is a well known wind-up merchant, used to do a double act with Glimmer as father and son going back well over a decade ago. He now concentrates on these nature threads. Don't know why I'm even bothering to explain, the dinosaurs on here seem to like the place kept dumbed down. Very sad but I expect they will win as people can't be bothered to try to change it as they are only met with moronic 
threads.
Good luck guys
threads.Good luck guys
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