#wild bees

The green bee is a striped sweat bee of the Agapostemon genus & the black bee is a leaf cutter bee within the Megachile genus!

Please do not put out sugar water for your local bees, or attempt to revive a tired bee with sugar water.

Beekeepers know what they're doing when it comes to supplementing their colonies with sugar water. The average non-beekeeper doesn't.

I don't know who started this idea but it's a terrible advice from people who aren't knowledgeable about bees.

It does more harm than good, especially if there are hives in the area.

Imagine if there was a popular movement to "save the birds" but the only birds people knew about were chickens and maybe geese. So everyone proposes doing things like raising chickens in your backyard to save the birds.

There IS a strange disease affecting chickens that is a major threat to the poultry industry. It's just that at the same time there are devastating declines in other birds that no one is paying attention to.

Now imagine that you are one of the few people who knows that other birds exist. You have nothing against chickens. It's just that there are so many wild birds that need our help too. Everyone you meet is surprised when you inform them about these other birds.

All this time, the other birds can be seen right outside their windows. It's just that few people take the time to stop and notice them.

Golden Baby