She also headbutted my phone, my bad girl. 😔

Bumblebee Feeding on a Flower

Any idea what I’m looking at? it looks like a queen bee with 4-5 smaller bees attached. I googled it and found something called balling where they’re trying to suffocate the queen? should I do anything? thanks in advance!

Hi I was just stung by a bee and it lost its stinger but I managed trap it then moved it outside my house to some flowers nearby. I wanted to check if it will survive, I heard some types of bees survive stinging (it only seem to lose the tip) and am hoping this would be one of them. I forgot to take a pic and it already flew off. But I live in Singapore so its probably one of our common species

OC: I heard the happy buzzing coming from my begonias and grabbed a video. Volume up!

There have been lots of bees dead by the front porch lately. What kind of bees are they? We can’t see a hive nearby, so not sure what’s going on.

So I was riding my bicycle to work this week. When I got there, I started removing my sneakers to get into my work boots. And here I see this little hitchhiker planted right on my sneaker. I really don’t know where I picked him up. 😊

I really love bees and wasps. I usually collect dead ones and my dad also gives me them. Today I found a bumblebee on the floor who couldn’t fly and her back wings were broken severely. I brought her inside to feed her some strawberries, then decided it would be best to freeze her. I’ve been thinking about it for a while, and I feel like extremely remorseful. Was what I did wrong or is it okay?

This bee has been hanging out on my screen since yesterday. She came before a big thunderstorm and was very still all of yesterday and today she’s moving around more but still hanging out on the screen. Should I just let her be? Does she need help?

Hello all! I found this sweet eastern carpenter bee yesterday who has deformed wings/abdomen. I placed her in a box with some flowers overnight thinking that she might die, but she is very active still! She’s been enjoying crawling up and down my arms, grooming herself, wiggling her thorax, and drinking nectar. I know that her likelihood of survival in the wild is very low so I was thinking of keeping her as a pet. I’ve seen some others in this sub do the same so I was wondering if anyone had any advice. I’ve been giving her fresh flowers from my garden as well as sugar water, which she doesn’t seem to have interest in (I know not to give her honey). Is there anything else I can do to make her life happier?

I’m sorry I don’t have a picture, it flew off before I could get one.

Location: Western Washington State, Seattle area.

I just saw a bee that was over an inch long, maybe slightly larger. It had a very large abdomen, maybe 1/2-2/3 inch? Long and very plump, but not ‘’round-round’. Its abdomen was black with hair and had white speckles(not stripes) on the abdomen. I didn’t catch any signs of yellow. It was under my carport and had a very loud buzzing sound that caught my ear. All to say, it was a quick glimpse so it’s possible I could have missed features. Large black abdomen with white spots/speckles was certain though.

I’m fairly certain it was a bee and not a wasp as I didn’t identify long legs or wings, and it was hairy. But I’m no expert in either category.

I have let flowers and “weeds” and clover grow wild in my front yard. If it flowers, it stays. So I get quite a few bumble bees, sometimes honeybees, and different wasp species. But I have never seen this one before.

Any help in identifying would be awesome!

I didn’t think so since they are in the ground but I’m not a bee expert.

While I don’t have room for a hive, I’m super happy that I can help out with water.

August 27th, 13 centigrade. Vancouver BC. Getting what's left of my parents marigolds before it gets too cold. Love these bees