One Bee's Story and How You Can Help
An Animal Rights Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

In Defense of Animals (IDA)
March 2014

We're telling you this story because there is no worse feeling than standing before an animal in distress and not knowing what to do about it.... Please help the next struggling bee you encounter with a mix of one part sugar to three parts room temperature water, and with any luck, he or she will recover and fly away, and you’ll have helped save a life and done your great deed for the day.

Last Friday, IDA's all around fix-it man, Brendan Montgomerie, came across a dead bee on the sidewalk. Saddened, he bent down to move her off the sidewalk when he noticed she was still barely alive. He ran inside and mixed raw sugar with clean room temperature water, and put a drop right in front of her. Amazingly, she drank a little bit, then crawled away. Brendan put another drop in front of her, and she drank more. Each time he placed a drop, she would drink a little bit. After several minutes, revitalized, she flew off.

We're telling you this story because there is no worse feeling than standing before an animal in distress and not knowing what to do about it. Bees in particular have been suffering so much as a species in recent years with colony collapses, that when we learned of this event, we wanted to magnify its impact by letting you know how easy it is to intervene and help a member of a struggling species. Undoubtedly some bees are beyond saving, but until the impossible and unlikely is attempted, it's never known for sure.

Please help the next struggling bee you encounter with a mix of one part sugar to three parts room temperature water, and with any luck, he or she will recover and fly away, and you’ll have helped save a life and done your great deed for the day.

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