Bumblebee Help

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Petrus1983

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9,435 posts

168 months

Thursday 27th February 2020
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A bumblebee has just arrived from no where in my living room and it seems very week - it’s currently around zero outside so the normal thing I’d do of putting it straight outside doesn’t seem right either, or should I? - is there anything I can do for the little guy?

extraT

1,813 posts

156 months

Thursday 27th February 2020
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Sugar water mix to get energy up and then let it out? It flew to you from it’s hive...

Petrus1983

Original Poster:

9,435 posts

168 months

Thursday 27th February 2020
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extraT said:
Sugar water mix to get energy up and then let it out? It flew to you from it’s hive...
Thanks - doing that now.

monoloco

289 posts

198 months

Thursday 27th February 2020
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its a girl btw -the only bumblebees that live over the winter are autumn born & mated queens who hibernate over the winter and start a new colony in the spring as soon as the weather starts to warm up. As said above, give her a little dribble of thick sugary water ( white sugar only though -brown sugar is poisonous to bees) and tuck her away somewhere dry like a shed and she'll be fine....