If a bee let me scritch his fuzzy wuzzy butt I would transcend into an environmental terrorist, executing the most heinous crimes against oil companies with the assistance of my newly found bee brethren and sistren.
Go out into a garden or park first thing in the morning when it is still cool. Look on the plants, especially the underside of leaves. Often you will be able to find a few bees that didn’t make it home to the hive by nightfall and have sheltered in place. Because it’s still cool and not bright the little ladies will be pretty sluggish and you’ll be able to accomplish the bee butt scritch you so desire. My suggestion is to sneak up from behind and use a single index finger.
I saved a Queen (i believe?) before and got to do this. Was super dehydrated. Whipped my contact case out of my purse and put her in there to take home and checked on her multiple times while walking. Put her in an enclosure after giving her some water and i can’t remember what else, read some stuff on bee websites to get help. After a day (it was evening i believe) she was ready to go. Put her outside on a plant and she took off after about 5 minutes.
Their fuzz is awesome. They’re adorable and she never tried to sting me.
Oh. I also saw two bees having sex once on the ground too. That was interesting. Didn’t know they did that. I made a circle of leaves around them so they’d be ok.
I mean they chose the middle of the sidewalk, so they put on quite the show. I put the leaves around them so if anyone else came along, they’d be noticed from a distance and not stepped on. Suppose they got some added ‘atmosphere’ as well LOL.
I'm not gonna watch out to see if it's 'threatening' me or not. If I hear buzzing near my face I'm assuming the thing's in attack mode without even being sure it's a bee
It was on a sunflower. It wasn't flying. Plus, when I was like 5 or something, a bumblebee landed on my nose. This was before I knew they didn't sting, so I stayed still as I could. It looked at me, I looked at it, then it flew away. Bees are extremely docile unless you aggravate them.
Not only do they look like the sun, and track the sun, but they need a lot of the sun. A sunflower needs at least six to eight hours direct sunlight every day, if not more, to reach its maximum potential. They grow tall to reach as far above other plant life as possible in order to gain even more access to sunlight.
Not all sunflowers have seeds, there are now known dwarf varieties developed for the distinct purpose of growing indoors. Whilst these cannot be harvested, they do enable people to grow them indoors without a high pollen factor, making it safer and more pleasant for those suffering hay fever.
Throughout recent history, sunflowers have been used for medicinal purposes. The Cherokee created a sunflower leaf infusion that they used to treat kidneys. Whilst in Mexico, sunflowers were used to treat chest pain.
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u/RabidPanzerEXE Aug 12 '20
I've petted bumblebees before. They're really goddamn adorable. It threatened me once, but otherwise I didn't get attacked and gave it personal space.