I’m not trying to make myself sound like Mr. Wonderful but today I found a bee in our back garden, and it was barely able to move. It was clearly dying as it was not moving at all, only weakly moving its legs from time to time. I asked Search Assist (ChatGPT) on DuckDuckGo and a DeepSeek website on how to help the bee, and they said to give the bee a sugar-water solution, so that’s what I did. Interestingly, they said to ONLY to use white sugar with water and NOT honey (because the honey can have harmful bacteria or something. I could only find what I thought was Demerara sugar, but I thought that was a less-than-terrible substitute for white sugar.
I put the bee in a spoon which had a little of the solution in it. I saw it drinking and it started moving more energetically straight away, trying to walk away from the spoon in the process, so I put it back in the spoon in case it went away from the solution by accident. I went back inside, and, about 45 mins later, I was told that the bee had gone. So, hopefully the bee is OK.
I have attached a few photos of the bee to this post. I read after that there are 18 different kinds of bees here in Lincolnshire. It seems this bee was a ‘Tree bumblebee’.
This isn’t why I helped the bee, but it was only about 5 years ago or so that I learned that if it wasn’t for bees, there wouldn’t really be much of a human civilization, as most crops, both fruit and vegetables, require bees to cross-pollinate them before they bear fruit. No bees means not many different kind of crops are able to be grown. My mind was blown when I read this. I didn’t know this until I was like 35.
I really enjoy helping animals/fauna who are in need, as I love animals. Coincidentally, today I decided to go pescatarian, so I hope I am able to adhere to a pescatarian diet.