Teeny bee

[MissPea]

Is this a honey bee? Surely this is too small to be out this early? It’s not flying too well.

[Mamzie]

Is it's body fluffy? Does look like a bee to me. We have loads out here already, as weather been so nice. From teenies to huge enormous bumbles buzzing x

[MissPea]

Yeah only a small bit as it looks very young. Should it be sheltered anywhere overnight?

[Mamzie]

I often seem to have the odd bee appear to nod off tucked into a plant in greenhouse when temp drops. I move them back outside onto an open flower into sun again next day. Or straight away if it's during daytime x

[ameno]

That's a solitary bee of some sort. It might be a bit dozy because it's not quite warm enough.

Also, there's no such thing as a "young" bee, at least not in the sense you are using. A young bee is a larva. Once the larva pupates and a flying bee emerges, that's an adult bee, and is as big as it is ever going to get.

[Mamzie]

Just found this link, which has done information on for overnight bee visitors hth

https://savebees.org/how-to-help-rev...ld-or-wet-bee/

[Mamzie]

This was one of our visitors yesterdsy, a stunning Ashly Mining bee, s/he slept on a pepper plant overnignt, and I moved it to this strawberry blossom in full sun around 11 am

[Muddy_Boots]

I have loads of bees of all varieties in my back garden honey, solitary and bumble. Got a huge Lavender bush next to my greenhouse and its full of bees and butterflies as its in full bloom and is stinking the garden out in a nice way.

I've discovered a wild honey bee colony that's resident in an old tree that has a hollow cavity in it within bee flying distance that's in the countryside near my house.