I have heard that it is possible to bring a bee back to life by giving it a small amount of honey. Is this true? :confused:
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I have heard that it is possible to bring a bee back to life by giving it a small amount of honey. Is this true? :confused:
Honey to the bee, that's you for me. How dead are we talking?
You can revive a bee which to all intents and purposes appears to be stone dead by bringing it into the heat, or by cupping your hands around it and blowing to warm it up. It is usually lack of heat rather than starvation which produces your seemingly dead bee.
However if it was more dead than that, you'll need magical powers and perhaps a wand. The kind of powers only forum admin possess.
Tis but a short hop to the Norwegian Blue from here!
I know a guy called Eric who can bring dead arguments back to life.
My daughter got a bit of a shock a few weeks ago when she brought a dead bee home 'to study'. After a few minutes in the house it began walking about :D. This prompted the question 'can bees sting when they're dead?'. I think she means properly dead i.e. magic wand required to revive them.
I get the impression that my fellow bee keepers are not taking my important question seriously. :mad:
My apiary is alive with the sound of honey.
I did buy a bee resuscitation kit that allows mouth to trachea resuscitation. You have to be gentle otherwise you risk blowing then up to look like bumble bees!
Hi EmsE,
The answer to your question is yes. I got a sting from a dead bee but then I was pulling off its right wing! and a sore one at that.
Thanks Jimbo, I'll tell her to be careful- although she keeps saying she wants to get stung :confused: I'm sure she'll grow out of that idea when it actually happens.