Done my good deed for the morning :)

[TulipJ]

I just went to check on my pond and I noticed a small red bee frantically trying to get out of the water. The poor thing was on its back so I lifted it out, left it to dry out a bit and then it proceeded to fly off. I think it was a mason bee, very cute looking little thing.

[veggiechicken]

Float a bit of wood in there or a sloping stone or twig that they can crawl onto to escape - or land on for a drink.

[Glutton4...]

Well done you!

I rescued a small fat spider yesterday. My friend's son dropped it into my hot coffee, when I told him I wasn't scared of them. Tipped it out on the grass in the sun to dry off - poor little blighter. (Yes, I cuffed the little s*d round the ear, too!)

[TulipJ]

I remember doing the same thing to my mother when I was a youngster. She nearly had a fit bless her with her phobia.
Thx for the wood tip, I will make sure there is a raft for any more unlucky insects that happen to fall in.

[ancee]

I spent the day rescuing bees from the end of my poly tunnel! It doesn't matter how much I flap or try to wave them into the direction of the large door opening, they insist on heading up into the top corner and buzz about all day! I have now got a piece of cardboard and a jug in the poly just for bee rescuing purposes

[hellybore]

I spent the day rescuing bees from the end of my poly tunnel! It doesn't matter how much I flap or try to wave them into the direction of the large door opening, they insist on heading up into the top corner and buzz about all day! I have now got a piece of cardboard and a jug in the poly just for bee rescuing purposes

I have the same problem in our conservatory, but the roof is too high for me to reach them with glass and cardboard. I have invented a new bee rescue method, which is to hold a broom upside down (head up) near it, let the bee climb onto it, then wave it out of the door. Works a treat - many bee lives have been saved this way!

[TulipJ]

I'm now googling poly tunnel. Excuse my ignorance but is it a greenhouse structure?
Well done on your valiant efforts

[Verinda]

If I see anything struggling in my ponds I have to rescue them.

A few years ago my son found a tiny mouse struggling in the dogs bowl of water. He saved it and it ran up his sleeve and bit him! I took him for a tetnus as he hadn't had one and the doctor thought it was extremely funny!

[TulipJ]

Bless him, I bet that was a shock to him and the mouse!

[Verinda]

Yes it was ! The mouse was pretty happy though, it shot off at remarkable speed, despite being drenched!