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[amonite.livejournal.com]

]I saved a bee today!!! I was not sure wether it was a boy or a girl and was calling it mr. bee but I remember someone once said that most worker bees were girls. I will have to look it up :)

The poor fuzzy bee was injured in the middle of the road and cars were stopped at the intersection and there was not time!!! I used our bus pass to move it as best I could past the bike lane line then to the curb and lift it into a flower bed but it still looked really sad.

I tried putting it on a flower but the cars rushed by and the wind blew the poor bee away and I finally found him or her under a elaf in the flower bed. The bee did not seem to be able to fly and one of its legs looked injured :(:(

Then I just talked to the bee and I might have been mean cause I said that if he was a wasp I would probably not have rescued him because wasps are scary.

The bee was not scary so much he was fuzzy an cute and I was not afraid of getting stung. Well, only a little. The bee did not deserve to be smooshed, it was only out to pollinate flowers and make more pretty flowers :) I like bees. I was worried though that it might sting soem other little kid and then I would feel bad for saving him, but since he is a bee, if he stings soemone he will die :( And bees do nto sting unless they think they are attacked and what is more sad a stign that goes away or a poor smooshed fuzzy bee???

Now wasps are scary cause the sting and ating and sting and are mean and a whole nest stung mommy once and I do not think I would like to be stung by a wasp.

But if a bee stung me I would feel bad for it because bugs do not get very long lives.

I was sad for the bee because he looked to injured to find his home again. But, a car came by and blew him again so I had to gently nudge him with a flower and my bus pass and he flew away!!! I guess all he needed was a time to rest and get over shock :):):)

So I think the happy bee will find his home again :):):):):) And I had fun talkign to the bee! I just wish I could understand bees it would be so cool to talk to them :)

~Wendy

PS It was not a honey bee or a bumblebee so I will have to look up what kind of fuzzy bee he was but he was cute and if bees did not sting they would be such cute pets

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[kasiya-system.livejournal.com]

uh.. buzz buzz?

[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

What a nice thing to do; good for you! :)

I saved a hummingbird last week. I was at work, with the door open because it was a nice day outside. A man named Dedrick lives in the apartment over my office, and he has a lot of bird feeders, including a big hummingbird-feeder that hangs in front of his kitchen window, right above my office door. The hummies like to chase each other around, and one flew by mistake into my office.

I thought it would fly out again by itself, so I turned off the office lights, pulled down the window-blinds so it wouldn't crash into the windows, and opened the door all the way. But it didn't fly out - it flew near the door, but the ceiling is higher than the top of the door, and it couldn't seem to figure out that it had to fly lower. Finally it settled on the edge of one of the ceiling lights and just clung there.

I let it rest a little, then climbed up on a chair and tried to very gently shoo it out the door with a box. This just scared it, though; it flew farther back in my office, chirping in a frightened way, till it came to rest on top of a high shelf.

I climbed up on the chair again to look at it, but didn't touch it - it was so tiny, I was afraid I'd hurt it. Also I knew that hummingbirds have to eat all the time, because they burn up so much energy, and I was afraid that if I scared it into flying around again, it would sort of 'run out of gas' and maybe die. So instead I went up the stairs to Dedrick's apartment and knocked on his door.

He's a very nice man, and knows a lot about birds. When I told him what had happened, he took down the big hummingbird-feeder and brought it down to my office. He climbed up on the chair and very, very gently picked up the little hummie with a paper towel. It didn't move or try to fly at all, poor thing; it must have been so tired.

We went outside and I held the feeder while he held the bird's little beak to one of the feeder openings, so it could get a drink of hummingbird food. Then after about a minute, suddenly.... hummmmm!... off it soared into the sunlit treetops, looking like a tiny green living jewel. So Dedrick went back upstairs, and I went back to work, and everyone was happy.

The hummie was a female Calliope - you can see pictures of them here (http://www.schmoker.org/BirdPics/CAHU.html). *smiles* Have a great day, fellow helper of wild creatures!

[ksol1460.livejournal.com]

if he wasn't fuzzy i thought at first she might have been a mason bee... they do not live in hives but use holes in the ground, trees, or walls and will not do anything to you;.. it's a little late for them to be around tho & they are shiny -- black, blue, red.

i have kept bees before and will do so again ... russian black bees (http://www.carniolan.com), they look like the bees on our homeworld. if you like bees maybe you can get into beekeeping ... i started when we were (this body was) twelve. it is pretty easy.

[appadil.livejournal.com]

Ah... I think we had those in our porch once before my dad had the crack sealed up. (I hope we didn't seal any bees inside...) Either that or it was carpenter bees.

...could that have been what you found, Wendy? They look kind of like bumblebees and they're pretty big. They're fuzzy on some parts and shiny on others. They don't like to sting though, unless they're really afraid, but the boy carpenter bees will act aggressive and try to scare you (which I think is sort of funny since they don't have stingers at all!) You're probably right, though to be more worried about wasps than bees- most bees can only sting once, but wasps can sting repeatedly so they can afford to be a lot more aggressive.

That was a really sweet thing to do- and more than a little brave, considering that it could have stung you. A lot of people I know would have just left the bee where it was.

[joyful-grrl.livejournal.com]

:-)