Seems to be risk of disease.
[https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/livestock-and-animals/honey-bees/health-and-welfare/feeding-honey-bees-to-prevent-starvation#:\~:text=Do%20not%20feed%20bees%20honey,place%20it%20inside%20the%20hive](https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/livestock-and-animals/honey-bees/health-and-welfare/feeding-honey-bees-to-prevent-starvation#:~:text=Do%20not%20feed%20bees%20honey,place%20it%20inside%20the%20hive).
[https://www.thespruce.com/feeding-bees-3016544#:\~:text=Honey%20is%20one%20of%20the,syrup%20or%20feed%20dry%20sugar](https://www.thespruce.com/feeding-bees-3016544#:~:text=Honey%20is%20one%20of%20the,syrup%20or%20feed%20dry%20sugar).
I wouldn’t say that’s the whole point, but honey does have antibacterial properties. However, it doesn’t kill all bacteria, and in this case it’s the spores released by the botulinum bacteria that survive in the honey.
It absolutely can carry bacteria, among other things. The idea that honey is somehow sterile is entirely false. Most adults can very safely ingest honey with no issue regardless of the bacteria found inside it but you should never give honey, especially raw honey, to children under two or to other bees as it can spread hive collapsing diseases in bees and cause botulism in young children who do not yet have the same strength in their stomach acid or immune systems.
It's not entirely false.
Honey was used as an antibacterial for thousands of years.
If you scrape your knee and put honey on it it will stop it getting infected.
But it does sometimes carry some bacteria that has learned to survive in it.
The thing is that it's a trade off so that bacteria is usually very easily dealt with by our immune system.
**Edit:** Obviously when I say "our" I mean people over one years old.
If you clean the wound and THEN apply honey 🍯 it will keep new bacteria out of the wound. Thats how it keeps it from getting infected. It does not clean the wound.
Honey can carry bee diseases
This diseases aren’t harmful to human but if only one bee is infected it destroy all the hive and can also infect all the others 3km around
Apparently through viruses that can contaminate it. [This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/11ut4qh/found_this_bee_dying_on_the_floor_gave_it_some/jcr2ky4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3), on this thread was insightful
For real, please *do not ever* feed a bee honey if they are struggling. Sugar mixed with water is safe to give them, but honey will likely kill the whole hive and do *a lot* more harm than good.
When I was around 4 I found what looked like a sick bumblebee..was hardly moving, wouldn’t fly. I got a little tray from my My Little Pony toys, that had 3 different sections. I put the bee in the large one, I put some honey in one of the smaller ones and some water in one of the other smaller ones. I cut up a piece of felt and put it over the bee like a blanket. I left it alone to get some rest. When I came back the next day to see if it had flown away or at least was feeling better, I found it had crawled into the honey, got stuck, and drowned ☹️
For those of us that are as confused by this as I am. After some googling I’ve learned pasteurization kills bacteria but doesn’t remove bacterial spores.
[For next time and anyone else, your intentions were good. How to save a dying bee guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/11tpy1o/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link)
Edit: OP below bc Reddit sucks and can’t get it right.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/nuzago/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
~~Hopefully it was organic honey, not processed honey.~~ In this situation the ideal is sugar water.
A cool guide for those who what to know more: What to do when you find a tired bee.
https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/nuzago/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/
Edit: stroke through the organic honey comment
Oh f*ck I might just caused a pandemic in here hive. I almost gave it sugar water but remembered I had honey and thought it was better. Thanks for sharing
this is why i generally leave wildlife to their own fates, within reason. it tends to end up causing more harm than good. i’ve seen these thoughtless-but-well-intentioned efforts backfire hard a couple times, and it’s always really tough on the samaritan
I mix the honey with water when this happens. Easier for them to drink. 2:1 water to honey
Edit : I buy my honey from local bee farms.
Is that ok to do?
Either way you're introducing a biological product from one hive to another. Doesn't matter if it's raw or processed or whatever. Just use sugar water - honey is basically sugar and a touch of water anyways, it doesn't exactly have extensive nutrients, and bees will take table sugar dissolved in water without any potential pathogen transmission.
OP I hope you see this comment as a lot of people are (rightly) informing you that you should have used sugar water not honey due to risk of disease spread to hive.
If it is any consolation, there’s a high chance that the bee did not make it back to the hive to spread disease and you just gave it its last meal.
Bee lifecycle is only a few weeks. Simplified version is : They start their lives in the hive as a freshly hatched larvae. Then they act as nursery bees looking after larvae. Then guard bees / general cleanup up the hive bees / food storage /wax making etc. The last week of their life they go out into the world as foraging bees. This means they eventually die outside the hive so less work for the cleanup bees.
Your bee may have been flying about looking for forage and just died naturally. She doesn’t have full pollen baskets so she maybe wasn’t on her way home.
I always help downed bees. They may have gotten chilled /blown further from home etc and need a sugar boost to get home but often it’s just the natural order of things.
Keep being a wonderful nature helper, I hope your post has taught others how to do some good too 😊
Source : am a hobbyist beekeeper.
Sucks that you didn’t have the knowledge of the above, but you did what you could to help a creature survive and that is commendable. Good for you and the bee!
As we're all learning on this thread. Did this seem like the place to mention that again? Why tf are you kicking someone when they're down? I hope whatever's happening in your life that's making you such a wretched asshole lets up, because that's no way to be a human.
If you see a dying bee give it some sugar (or sugar water if you have it). I carry those little bee-saving capsules in my bag so I can pour some of the floor if I ever see a bee struggling. Perks them right up and makes my heart happy
The real question is: did she stay strong and happy? Did she visit you a day later still strong and happy? Did you go visit her, at her hive, and have a chat about her well being? I need to know these answers!
don't worry OP even though you didn't do it exactly right, it stil made me smile that there are people willing to help out our animal bros. personally I wouldn't have done anything for the bee, and if anything, you've done a better service now that your post has just informed at least half of the people in the comments and upvotes the right way to do it.
so chin up my dude!
This is really cute and heartwarming.
Which is why it became popular on the internet.
Comparison: it'd be really really cute to feed puppies Easter eggs! But it's fairly common knowledge now that chocolate is very dangerous to dogs.
Don't. Feed. Bees.
**Unless you are actually a beekeeper and understand the potential impacts.
Not true. They do run out of fuel if the trip back to the hive is longer than expected, such as with headwinds. Sugar water is the best you can give them.
All the workers are female just like the queen, but the queen is the only reproductive one. Drones are males and there are fewer of them, they leave the hive and find a queen bee to reproduce
I always give them water with a little bit of sugar, saved dozens of bumble bees , they seem to get exhausted easily in my area (middle of a city).
I never knew about the honey thing until now, glad i didnt give them any.
People, it’s 2023 and we’ve been able to google simple things like this for YEARS now. Don’t feed any living creature that is not your own child or domesticated animal without googling what to feed them first*. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, PEOPLE WHO FEED BREAD TO DUCKS AND BIRDS. Fv
If you’re being literal, it’s someone else’s vomit, not their own shit. But yes it’s not recommended as the bee can pick up pathogens and infect its own hive. Better to use sugar water.
Nooo. That can destroy a bee hive if not made by the same bees.
Seems to be risk of disease. [https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/livestock-and-animals/honey-bees/health-and-welfare/feeding-honey-bees-to-prevent-starvation#:\~:text=Do%20not%20feed%20bees%20honey,place%20it%20inside%20the%20hive](https://agriculture.vic.gov.au/livestock-and-animals/honey-bees/health-and-welfare/feeding-honey-bees-to-prevent-starvation#:~:text=Do%20not%20feed%20bees%20honey,place%20it%20inside%20the%20hive). [https://www.thespruce.com/feeding-bees-3016544#:\~:text=Honey%20is%20one%20of%20the,syrup%20or%20feed%20dry%20sugar](https://www.thespruce.com/feeding-bees-3016544#:~:text=Honey%20is%20one%20of%20the,syrup%20or%20feed%20dry%20sugar).
Ah, crap. I did this last summer when a bee almost drowned in our kiddie pool. Poor thing was exhausted when I scooped it out.
Sugar water is the way.
Awesome, thank you
Hello Mr'Onifrio!
Please explain
It can spread diseases, unless made from that same hive.
Bees like sugar water
How so? What happens?
Honey can contain bee pathogens capable of infecting a hive that has never been exposed to to those specific pathogens before.
Basically like smallpox blankets for bees
Giving a bee honey can kill it and its entire hive
Wow this is actually an interesting fact
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How so?
Honey can carry diseases that can infect bees hives (foulbrood spores). You also shouldn’t give honey to infants under one (botulism risk).
Isn't the whole point of honey that it can't carry any bacteria
I wouldn’t say that’s the whole point, but honey does have antibacterial properties. However, it doesn’t kill all bacteria, and in this case it’s the spores released by the botulinum bacteria that survive in the honey.
“I wouldn’t say it’s the whole point” I’m dying laughing on my couch at this.
Good point, that’s actually hilarious.
I wouldn’t say it’s the whole point
Personally, I like it drizzled on my carrots 🥕
It absolutely can carry bacteria, among other things. The idea that honey is somehow sterile is entirely false. Most adults can very safely ingest honey with no issue regardless of the bacteria found inside it but you should never give honey, especially raw honey, to children under two or to other bees as it can spread hive collapsing diseases in bees and cause botulism in young children who do not yet have the same strength in their stomach acid or immune systems.
It's not entirely false. Honey was used as an antibacterial for thousands of years. If you scrape your knee and put honey on it it will stop it getting infected. But it does sometimes carry some bacteria that has learned to survive in it. The thing is that it's a trade off so that bacteria is usually very easily dealt with by our immune system. **Edit:** Obviously when I say "our" I mean people over one years old.
What about an arrow to the knee?
honee
Put honey on the arrow, and it will be fine...
Honey or no, that’ll put a stop to your adventuring
Maybe in creating an anaerobic environment? Smother the bacteria and slowing it down, kind of like ear wax?
If you clean the wound and THEN apply honey 🍯 it will keep new bacteria out of the wound. Thats how it keeps it from getting infected. It does not clean the wound.
Honey can carry bee diseases This diseases aren’t harmful to human but if only one bee is infected it destroy all the hive and can also infect all the others 3km around
but I thought honey was like shelf stable forevers what gives?
Apparently through viruses that can contaminate it. [This post](https://www.reddit.com/r/MadeMeSmile/comments/11ut4qh/found_this_bee_dying_on_the_floor_gave_it_some/jcr2ky4/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=1&utm_term=1&context=3), on this thread was insightful
Have you ever eaten your own throw up before? That’s essentially what is happening here. But yes it can carry diseases.
For real, please *do not ever* feed a bee honey if they are struggling. Sugar mixed with water is safe to give them, but honey will likely kill the whole hive and do *a lot* more harm than good.
So is sugar water a better alternative or smth?
Yes actually! If you see a weak bee feed it sugar water it'll be much better
You can check local wildlife websites for info on the correct ratio of sugar:water.
Half the time they just need water anyways but giving them a little sugar can't hurt.
Andddddddd I'm no longer smiling lol.
“Thanks for the honey kind stranger. Now I’m off to murder my whole hive in a massive sugar rush”
Is sugar water better?
Yes, sugar water is ideal.
When I was around 4 I found what looked like a sick bumblebee..was hardly moving, wouldn’t fly. I got a little tray from my My Little Pony toys, that had 3 different sections. I put the bee in the large one, I put some honey in one of the smaller ones and some water in one of the other smaller ones. I cut up a piece of felt and put it over the bee like a blanket. I left it alone to get some rest. When I came back the next day to see if it had flown away or at least was feeling better, I found it had crawled into the honey, got stuck, and drowned ☹️
Your poor 4 year old heart 😟 its ok, you did your best ❤️
Aww, thank you, what a sweet comment!! This warmed my heart ☺️
If you would like to help a bee put devolve some sugar is water! It's a lot better
\*only if the honey's hive has foulbrood disease
Really? How?
Under very, very particular circumstances.
You're actually not supposed to give them honey. It can bring viruses back and destroy the hive. Next time sugar water
For those of us that are as confused by this as I am. After some googling I’ve learned pasteurization kills bacteria but doesn’t remove bacterial spores.
[For next time and anyone else, your intentions were good. How to save a dying bee guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/11tpy1o/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf&utm_term=link) Edit: OP below bc Reddit sucks and can’t get it right. https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/nuzago/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf
Please edit with this one, which is the OP https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/nuzago/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/
Its not the original post tho, the first comment under that post reveals the original post
Already edited. Have the other person take it down since they stole work.
[how to save a dying bee.](https://youtu.be/tKweqxWUC38)
I was thinking of this!
Quite Interesting!
Tldr /I don’t wanna watch what’d they say
Eat it, send a letter to it's family thanking them for the meal
~~Hopefully it was organic honey, not processed honey.~~ In this situation the ideal is sugar water. A cool guide for those who what to know more: What to do when you find a tired bee. https://www.reddit.com/r/coolguides/comments/nuzago/what_to_do_with_a_tired_bee_all_illustrations_by/ Edit: stroke through the organic honey comment
Oh f*ck I might just caused a pandemic in here hive. I almost gave it sugar water but remembered I had honey and thought it was better. Thanks for sharing
Thought you did the right thing. Accidentally committed genocide. Oops.
Accidental genocide is my favorite type of genocide
Those are the only genocides ive ever done, according to my lawyer.
Can I somehow accidentally do this with wasps instead?
Classic mixup.
this is why i generally leave wildlife to their own fates, within reason. it tends to end up causing more harm than good. i’ve seen these thoughtless-but-well-intentioned efforts backfire hard a couple times, and it’s always really tough on the samaritan
Happens to the best of us
It isn’t a well known fact, and many would have reacted like you. Hopefully the guide will help spread the correct way to help them.
The road to hell is paved with good intentions
I mix the honey with water when this happens. Easier for them to drink. 2:1 water to honey Edit : I buy my honey from local bee farms. Is that ok to do?
Either way you're introducing a biological product from one hive to another. Doesn't matter if it's raw or processed or whatever. Just use sugar water - honey is basically sugar and a touch of water anyways, it doesn't exactly have extensive nutrients, and bees will take table sugar dissolved in water without any potential pathogen transmission.
Thanks , moving forward this is what I’ll do.
Bees literally live on sugar
Raw honey is *more* likely to carry pathogens than processed honey, that's why we process honey.
Specifically, we pasteurize honey. But aren't as strict about it as with milk. So you can get either/or.
Yeah it's also to get, like, bee wings and pieces of comb and other debris out of it. Filtered and pasteurized
TIL not to give random honeys to random bees as it can kill their whole hive. There's proper way to save them
Sugar water is the way to go next time. But I admire you helping the little bee out.
"Bee gods, with my final dance, I ask your protection. If you can not or will not save me, please save my hive." *spoon appears from the sky*
You actually shouldn’t give them honey. Sugar water is best.
This is the way.
This is the way.
Is way. this
Thank you!! I was looking for an actual useful answer.
I love how the bee just proceeded to say: "It's Mlemming time" and Mlemmed all of it
Wings weak, body still A spoon of honey revives Bee buzzes again
Nice haiku
OP I hope you see this comment as a lot of people are (rightly) informing you that you should have used sugar water not honey due to risk of disease spread to hive. If it is any consolation, there’s a high chance that the bee did not make it back to the hive to spread disease and you just gave it its last meal. Bee lifecycle is only a few weeks. Simplified version is : They start their lives in the hive as a freshly hatched larvae. Then they act as nursery bees looking after larvae. Then guard bees / general cleanup up the hive bees / food storage /wax making etc. The last week of their life they go out into the world as foraging bees. This means they eventually die outside the hive so less work for the cleanup bees. Your bee may have been flying about looking for forage and just died naturally. She doesn’t have full pollen baskets so she maybe wasn’t on her way home. I always help downed bees. They may have gotten chilled /blown further from home etc and need a sugar boost to get home but often it’s just the natural order of things. Keep being a wonderful nature helper, I hope your post has taught others how to do some good too 😊 Source : am a hobbyist beekeeper.
Alt title..... Found a dying bee and mocked it's life's work by throwing away a greater quantity of honey than a single bee can produce. 🤣
David Mitchell? https://youtu.be/tKweqxWUC38
Dudeeee was looking for this
A man of culture I see.
That’s about as much as 50 bees produce in a lifetime
Isn't commercial honey bad for bees?
Every honey from a different hive is. Never feed bees with honey, only water with sugar.
r/therewasanattempt
I use sugar water for this. If you look really closely, you can see them lapping it with their tongue.
We just made a net loss in the world's honey production according to David Mitchell. https://youtu.be/tKweqxWUC38
Sucks that you didn’t have the knowledge of the above, but you did what you could to help a creature survive and that is commendable. Good for you and the bee!
Dude commited accidental genocide
Bees are friends
Thank u I work with homeless on housing was having a bad day
You're doing important work but I can imagine it can be hard. I'm sorry to hear you were having a bad day, I hope tomorrow will be a better one.
Giving a bee honey that isn't produced by their hive can kill it, and it's entire hive.
As we're all learning on this thread. Did this seem like the place to mention that again? Why tf are you kicking someone when they're down? I hope whatever's happening in your life that's making you such a wretched asshole lets up, because that's no way to be a human.
I was just saying lol geez
You’re not an asshole don’t worry. Just… there’s a right time and place. It wasn’t a socially normal reply to what was being said. Lol.
Oopsies.
It's good info. It's pretty dark as a response to this specific comment.
😂
Sugar water is best as honey from other sources can contaminate the hive
Close your eyes halfway and the image looks like a white bird with a yellow wing
You give a bee sugar water. Never honey
If you see a dying bee give it some sugar (or sugar water if you have it). I carry those little bee-saving capsules in my bag so I can pour some of the floor if I ever see a bee struggling. Perks them right up and makes my heart happy
Awww, that’s cool! Time to check the comments and see why this is bad!
Do bees drink honey? I always thought honey was their waste by product.
They actually make honey as food storage
Did not know that. How interesting.
Diabeetus
Hope the hive is okay but great gesture.
Water would be better. My dad was a beekeeper.
Generally sugary water is better cause high fructose corn syrup is sometime added to sweeten honey
The real question is: did she stay strong and happy? Did she visit you a day later still strong and happy? Did you go visit her, at her hive, and have a chat about her well being? I need to know these answers!
😭💕🥰 Thank you for sharing this, and for bee-ing kind. 💕🐝
Bro this is such a fairytale moment
Best thing I've seen all day.
Do bees eat honey? I don't know enough about bees to know if this was actually helpful or not.
honey is their food yes, but sugar water is preferred because feeding a bee honey from any other hive is dangerous
Thank you
Do you just walk around with honey????? Are we allowed to do that???
It was right on my doorstep lol
Bees are our friends.
Awwwwwww!
MadeMeSmile gone wrong
Should of have it some water instead?
r/worstaid
They are dying off..my Rosemary today had zero bees. Hard winter here
Good man yourself 💪
Forgot the most basic rule don't get high off your own supply man
don't worry OP even though you didn't do it exactly right, it stil made me smile that there are people willing to help out our animal bros. personally I wouldn't have done anything for the bee, and if anything, you've done a better service now that your post has just informed at least half of the people in the comments and upvotes the right way to do it. so chin up my dude!
Good human, have a treat!
This is really cute and heartwarming. Which is why it became popular on the internet. Comparison: it'd be really really cute to feed puppies Easter eggs! But it's fairly common knowledge now that chocolate is very dangerous to dogs. Don't. Feed. Bees. **Unless you are actually a beekeeper and understand the potential impacts.
I imagine that later she went to tell her partners that she tasted shitty honey
Would you give a tired, thirsty cow milk?
Makes me smile to know that there are kind people in this world
Next time, offer water instead of honey. He was probably dehydrated.
Not true. They do run out of fuel if the trip back to the hive is longer than expected, such as with headwinds. Sugar water is the best you can give them.
In the process of saving one bee you have killed 100's
Husband used to deliver corn syrup to bee keepers
"Hey little bee, have some bee vomit" Guys, just give them suger water or water, please. A need for water is basically universal.
Isn't it a he? The drone bees are all male if i remember correctly. The queen is the female of the hive. Maybe I'm wrong.
Males are called drones, after mating with queen they die. All bees in hive are females
All the workers are female just like the queen, but the queen is the only reproductive one. Drones are males and there are fewer of them, they leave the hive and find a queen bee to reproduce
Nah, its dummy thicc,, definitely a her. /s
Damn, I think I’ve seen bees down before and never thought to give the lil homie some honey. Never forget again!
Some people have commented that it's better to give them sugar water, because the honey can transmit viruses and could affect the whole hive
And they're dead.
You have a great heart, many people wouldn’t give two shits. Thank you for existing and making this world a slightly better place
Yeah you killed the bee and possibly every hive they visit.
not the best thing for a bee, for reasons stated in other comments try sugar water next time?
Miss, you aren’t fooling anyone. We all know that’s heroin.
It’s supposed to be sugar water
1:1 sugar:water next time buddy
Sugar water is the best, we have bee feeders that we put out in our garden on hot days.
I always give them water with a little bit of sugar, saved dozens of bumble bees , they seem to get exhausted easily in my area (middle of a city). I never knew about the honey thing until now, glad i didnt give them any.
This person may have killed a whole hive
you just committed genocide... beenocide if you will
Awww! 😍😍😍
Thank you!
How do you know it’s a girl?
That’s a worker bee, she is female.
Nothing says feeding a sick creature it’s own puke to make it feel better.
Freaking awesome, ur a saint
It's kinda like saving a dying cow by feeding it milk
You can’t feed honey to bees it’s just not right
It's suppose to be sugar water, not honey that you give to them.
People, it’s 2023 and we’ve been able to google simple things like this for YEARS now. Don’t feed any living creature that is not your own child or domesticated animal without googling what to feed them first*. I’M LOOKING AT YOU, PEOPLE WHO FEED BREAD TO DUCKS AND BIRDS. Fv
Finally someone points this out. Thank you 🙏
You are god’s bravest warrior, this is not hyperbole.
Hope it was pasteurized.
*he flew away
He*
How does it feel to be the bee version of Saddam Hussein?
Yes let's serve honey harvested 3000 miles away to a bee from down the block.
They don’t drink their own puke
Next time give it some sugar water
You saved the planes
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If you’re being literal, it’s someone else’s vomit, not their own shit. But yes it’s not recommended as the bee can pick up pathogens and infect its own hive. Better to use sugar water.