Thirsty Honey Bees, and photos of honey bees drinking water on a very hot day, note their long proboscis as they get cool and satisfy their thirst.
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Thirsty Honey Bees Drinking Water.
We should always place water out for bees and birds and other insects. The best is to place in a shallow dish with stones or marbles in the water. As when they come to drink a lot will fall in the water and drown.
To place stones in will give them a place to swim to and fly off. This water was in our water bowl for a fountain.
Luckily we were always there to rescue bees and what I did was place in a floating stick, in case the bees got into trouble and nearly drown.
![thirsty honey bees drinking water on a very hot day](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/watermarked-pic-300x147-dd.jpg)
Many bees came on very hot days for water, they never bothered the animals or humans.
They can also swim their way out and never did find a drowned bee. We only found dead bees in a container that is impossible to climb out of.
![many honey bees in South Africa drinking water from a water fountain](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/pict-300x108-bb.jpg)
A bud of a flower floating in the water. Maybe a rescue float for a swimming or drowning bee. With summer and extremely hot days you always need to supply sage water drinking places for bees as well as larger water drinking spots for animals.
![honey bees on edge of a bowl of water and floating flowers](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/15350574_10154741432299360_8042474915094727153_n-1-300x93-b-300x93-cc.jpg)
We must look after the bees as they are so very important to humans and nature, without bees we would not survive.
They are the true pollinators of the earth.
![a fountain that some honey bees are drinking water from an edge](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/22549996_10155710078659360_4258222175281483455_n-300x180-aa.jpg)
The honey bees and other species of bees and many insects obtain water from any puddle or places that water drips.
![](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Thirsty-Honey-Bees-5.png)
On the edge of a trickling stream or just amongst the small leaves. Bees forage for water.
![](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Thirsty-Honey-Bees-3.png)
They collect and drink water from drops on leaves and grass early in the morning. The dew drops is what they forage on.
![](https://www.sabeekeeper.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Thirsty-Honey-Bees-6-778x700.png)
Please save the bees.
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