Bee's drinking bowl - Arts, Crafts and DIY

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Do you know that worker bees only live for about 6 weeks in summer and that is takes 12 bees their lifetime to produce a teaspoon of honey? That means that when you squeeze some yummy honey onto your toast in the morning, chances are that you are eating 24 bees lifetime work.

With this in mind and the fact that honey bees are really in a lot of trouble, we decided to give them a little help. Making honey is thirsty work!

Material

1 wooden bowl
A Few marbles
A little water

Method

A clean supply of water is much needed for the daily operation of running a beehive! Bees use water to cool the hive, to thin the honey to feed to the larva, and I am sure they just need a drink too!

If you have a swimming pool or a bird bath I am sure you have found little honey bees floating around, they drown when trying to collect water!

This is our no bees drowned watering system! All you need is a bowl – we used a wooden one and marbles!
Add water to the bowl, enough to almost cover the marbles – this way the bees can stand on them and drink. I am sure you could do this with little pebbles just as well.

Place the bowl in your garden, where you are sure the bees will see it, and then wait for your first customer!

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- Emma Owl
- 31 Oct 2014
  12:34 am

86 Comments

- - ChiWren said
  - 04 Feb 2024
    7:20 pm
Getting some marbles tomorrow! Bees are so important, we should do what we can to make water collection a little easier.

- - mom443421 said
  - 15 Dec 2023
    11:16 am
I love this idea! My boys love bees/insects, so will look at doing this over summer! Thank you!

- - mom160289 said
  - 07 Jun 2022
    7:39 pm
I never knew this – I will start doing this for sure

- - Mum2archer said
  - 24 May 2022
    10:43 pm
We have these around our yard and it’s amazing to see them come and use it

- - Julzie13 said
  - 14 Mar 2022
    10:15 am
I like this idea. It would look nice placed in or around your garden which will help the bees not get as tired searching for water, and help them stay pollinating your garden.

- - Frankiielot said
  - 07 Nov 2021
    11:34 pm
AwWww this is so lovely!
Will have to make one of these for our greenhouse as a few come and visit now it’s warmer and we keep the doors open for air circulation during the day.

- - Mrs.twinmama said
  - 30 Jun 2021
    5:52 pm
Great facts, I honestly never knew. I will definitely do this.

- - LeeLee72 said
  - 06 May 2021
    7:33 am
Everybody needs to do this!
It couldn’t be easier to do and the benefits are huge. We’ve got to look after our bees

- - mom19782016 said
  - 16 Oct 2020
    2:37 pm
this is so important to do for our bees

- - Ellen said
  - 29 Dec 2019
    8:30 am
Good thinking !

- - Mum2archer said
  - 25 Nov 2019
    10:37 pm
This is a brilliant idea to encourage bees to the garden!

- - celebrity said
  - 23 Jul 2019
    9:01 pm
What a great idea! I always have water out for birds but never bees. I’ll make mine tomorrow. Thank you.

- - mom119776 said
  - 23 May 2019
    9:10 pm
Ill be doing one tomorrow. Thanks for the idea.

- - mom19782016 said
  - 23 Mar 2019
    9:31 am
Oh that’s so sad about the bees!

- - MrsA said
  - 14 Mar 2019
    3:34 pm
I didn’t know any of this. Thanks for sharing.

- - BellaB said
  - 31 Dec 2018
    1:30 pm
This is a clever and attractive idea.

- - kjgarner said
  - 29 Jun 2018
    11:59 am
That is a great way to give bees drinking water thanks for sharing
- kjgarner replied
  
  30 Jun 2018 , 8:21 pm
  Caring for the Bees so they don’t drown, awesome idea
- - mom297125 said
  - 29 May 2018
    11:51 am
What a brilliant idea. And my kids were very interested so we googled more about bees. Thanks for sharing

- - mom81879 said
  - 24 Apr 2017
    8:31 am
We do have a paddling pool and do notice bees floating in there. I will be emptying the pool and making one of these. Bees are so important to our lives

- - mom206279 said
  - 31 Mar 2017
    10:31 am
What a beautiful idea!