Friday 29 March 2019

Honey Bee

I found this apparently drowned insect in a water butt and after pulling it out noticed a very slight twitch of one leg. I left it out to dry and then took it indoors in a box and put some honey under its head. I was amazed to find it fit and healthy the next morning and it was gone about twenty minutes after I put it outside in the sun. I didn't recognize it as a Honey Bee but apparently the long thin cell on the outer edge of the wing is diagnostic. Of course the design of the abdomen is also distinctive but I was fooled by the bright colouration. I had read that honey is the one thing that gets an ailing bee up and flying and it actually works.

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