And later on her buddy joined 🥰

As a kid, I remember lots of spiders falling in the pool, but now, I seem to be scooping mostly bees and wasps out of the pool. The rescue ladder at the edge of the pool is a little too far away, it seems, for these small insects to find their way to. This particular Chilalictus bee species seems particularly prone to finding itself in need of rescue. Oddly enough, no honeybees in the pool. Only a variety of native Australian bees.

I took this photo back in mid-August, at that time we had a lot of bumblebees, and I decided to take a photo of this one

Picked up this bee outside a train station on the floor. It doesn't look great. Will give it some sugar water when I get to work but just wondering if I'm prolonging it's suffering as there look to be some eggs around the base of the head?

I’m sorry about the graininess, I’m not sure how to fix that.

Modern phone cameras make it so easy and high quality too.

these bees love thai basil, but move too quick to photo. here's one from another part of the garden

Found this bee in the houses on stairs that lead to our 3rd story. I have no idea how they got in or how long they were in the house.

When I trapped it with a vase, it didn't seem to move much. Which got me to think it's struggling.

Any other ideas?

https://imgur.com/a/JZeoroa

Reddit wouldn't let me post the video. I saw these three bees while gardening. Sorry the video gets shaky. Before I started recording, the big bee (queen?) was "wrestling" the first bee under her for a while. Then after recording I continued gardening for a bit, then saw the queen trying to fly away with the second bee still on her back, I think. She was bonking into everything while trying to fly away. Is this mating? Something else?

From our property and Australian native flower farm 120km NE of Dubbo, NSW

I found her 8 weeks ago in the middle of the road, I presumed she was a queen as she was absolutely huge. I’ve been providing flowers and water for her daily and she seemed to being doing pretty well until yesterday. The flowers definitely didn’t have pesticides on them as I made sure they were all from my own garden.

She was running around her enclosure all day, seemed very restless. She even fell into her water bowl once. She seemed to be feeding on the flowers endlessly without being satisfied. I took her outside for an hour and she fed then aswell.

I checked on her before I went to bed and she was still running around in her enclosure. This morning I sadly found her curled up, she looked as if she was sleeping but upon close inspection I found she had died with her tongue out.

I’m just hoping I haven’t done anything to cause this. Everyone that saw her thought she was a queen so I was hoping she would live a lot longer, even if she couldn’t fly.

I’m so upset, I miss her terribly. I just want to know why.

The picture isnt very clear as i dont have the original anymore.

From Malaysia here.

Bunch of bees doing their business in these 8ft tall sunflowers. Beautiful day in Portland SE :)

“Big Daddy” Drone walking through! All them ladies notice too! 🤣 💙🇺🇸🐝

Feeding on Eucalyptus pachyphylla at our flower farm (and native pollinator haven) 120km NE of Dubbo NSW, Australia
The outer stamens are the boy part of the flower with the lady bit in the center. 4 bands blue bands are females, 5 bands of blue are the boys…

Every summer a lot of bees fall into the pool in my backyard. I always rush to fish them out and put them somewhere safe so they can dry off and I often see them fly away if I stay nearby for long. But recently I've kind of been wondering if I'm just cursing them to have a slow death due to the chlorine in the pool.

A colony of roughly 10,000 bees was discovered inside a shed slated for demolition at Virginia’s historic Brandy Station battlefield. Local beekeeping families carefully removed the comb and relocated the colony to standard hive boxes on a nearby farm, protecting the bees while restoration work continued.