Bees Need Flowers
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There’s been a lot of social media posts recently advocating making bee feeders and leaving out sugar water for bees. For lots of reasons this is a really bad idea (please see previous blog https://www.thelittlehoneybeecompany.com/blog/read_185365/why-leaving-sugar-water-out-for-bees-is-such-a-bad-idea.html ).
Sugar water will give bees a quick energy boost so is still good to revive a tired bee, but it doesn’t meet all their nutritional needs. They need nectar and pollen, both of which are provided by flowers in varying quantities. That means bees are vegetarian.
(Solitary bee on fleabane)