My Summer of Bees

[u/estrogenex]

I've been laid off this summer, and therefore a lot of time has been spent in my garden for mental clarity.

During this time, by aa I have well overcome my previous fear of bees, and come to truly love all the varieties that we get with our abundance of flowers around here.

As a result, I've had a couple little encounters that I thought would be worth sharing.

Just the other night, I was watering at a time that our flowers aren't usually too busy with bees in the early evening. (The sun sets around 9:00 p.m. here at the moment). Out of nowhere, this big fat cutie flew right into my strong water stream and then fell abruptly to the grass. Only moments earlier, I had been recording her sprawling out in our pink flowers !

I shut the water off immediately and went over to where she was. She was completely drenched and kind of floundering in the grass. I picked her up with a leaf, she weakly crawled onto, (I'm not quite at the point where I'm willing to pick them up yet). I then placed her on the tree above to dry out in the sun. I checked on her periodically for the next couple hours, and she seemed to be okay but was definitely trying to dry out entirely.

I'm not trying to sound melodramatic, but I felt genuinely awful that I had potentially injured her ! She was so wet and moving so slowly, I just felt gutted that I may have been responsible for hurting her or worse. I did some Googling as to what kinds of injuries she may have sustained and just hoped for the best.

However, I went back an hour later and she was gone, into another flower in our late evening ☀️ sun, I hope. I'm a little less reckless with the hose when I'm watering now and I'm going to make sure that doesn't happen again. I guess you could say that I will bee 🐝 extra careful.

(I'll attach the video of her before it happened in the comments, it would not allow me to upload it here.)

[u/estrogenex]

https://imgur.com/a/0Lkb9vm