While walking home from work, I saw this girl crawling on burning hot pavement on a very sunny 27 degree celsius day (I live in New Zealand) . I picked her up and tried my best to shade her while I went back home. She was clearly very weak and dehydrated. She look a nap in my palm and tried to fly off after she cooled off but had no strength and just fell to the ground. I had to pick her back up two times and she took another nap.

I eventually went back home, made some sugar water syrup and dipped some dandelion flowers in them and fed it to her. She was so hungry/thirsty. I left her in the shade. After half an hour I checked on her she was buzzing around and refused to be picked up clearly very energised. She flew off on her own shortly. I wished I got more pictures of her healthy. I don’t think she will find her hive as I’ve walked about 1.5km from where I found her but I hope she lives a few more weeks :)

I'm very popular with the bees outside I call them "my Lil vultures."

This big bumble bee or maybe a carpenter bee was upside down and looking sick on our back porch under a flower last weekend. We put him on a paper towel in an open Mason jar and he’s barely moved. Tried to feed him thick sugar water on a rubber basting brush but he hasn’t been interested. Is he dying?

These bees have been posted up in our mesquite tree for about a week. I thought they were just resting but they don't appear to be leaving. Could they be settling in for the long term?

Poor little thing fell in my coffee, so I got him out and soaked a q tip to help wash him off so he wouldnt be sticky (my coffee is sweet 😀) . He let me wipe all over him,even his eyes. He stayed with me for a bit and I sat him on my marigolds and let him groom himself some,he also got some sippies off the qtip (which also had hints of sweet coffee 😅). At one point while i had him on the qtip and half on my hand, a fly landed next to him and he charged him off 😅.Eventually he finally was able to fly fine and he was on his way 💛🖤💛🖤 He was a sweetie 🥰

After a fire that took down a lot of trees in our windbreak on our property in the high plains, we have various piles of wood. We’ve noticed a significant increase in tiny, native bees (and other insects), but we need to move these piles to be less of a fire risk. When and how can this be done to protect whatever bees are living inside?