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Nick

Joined: 02 Nov 2004
Posts: 34535
Location: Hereford

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 14 9:55 pm Post subject: Bee pub
https://www.naturalcuresnotmedicine.com/2014/03/water-bees-without-drowning-risk.html No idea if it's great or daft. I don't even like honey.

jamanda
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Joined: 22 Oct 2006
Posts: 35057
Location: Devon

Posted: Thu Mar 27, 14 10:08 pm Post subject:
I was told to put a handful of grass or similar for the bees to land on if water was in short supply and you needed to lay on a supply. The marbles would work too, as would pebbles. Don't think the sugar water is a good idea though.

Mistress Rose

Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15996

Posted: Fri Mar 28, 14 7:23 am Post subject:

Would agree with you on that Jamanda. Bees are usually quite intelligent when it comes to water gathering and tend to congregate on vegetation floating on water or pick the water up from mud, but the marbles idea is very good if you put out water. Sugar water is a feed, and you want to put that on directly so it goes in quickly. Think all the illustration would do would provide a good place for bugs and fungi to grow.

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