Stumble-bee rescue

This morning I spotted a bumblebee dropping out of the sky. The night can still be rather cold and the poor thing was only barely awake at all because of it. I let it climb onto my hand and gave it some lukewarm sugar water. After it warmed up, it did some charming calisthenics, and managed to fly off again.
I used to give such bees honey water, but that can be very bad for their little bee family, so I recommend sunshine and sugar water in such cases.💚

#bees #bugs #nature

@HeliaXyana Why is honey bad for them?

@AinsleyLowbeer

As I understand it, there are some bacteria in there which the healthy adult can handle, but the young, or the weaker bees can't, and it might contaminate and infect others. Even just through pollinating the same flowers.