I enjoyed a break outdoors sitting in warm late fall sunshine. When I returned indoors to continue my work-from-home I heard the familiar buzz, but I was not able to find the bee on my clothing. The next day she was captured in a clear solo cup which are kept handy as a remedy for bee freeloading. The bee was not moving in a coordinated way, so I added a few drops of honey in the clear cup, but she was not interested in feeding.
Taken from my beelining playbook, I placed the clear cup in a darken area to encourage feeding. Yeah, I'm obsessed with beelining and see the world of insects through a beelining lens. For this freeloading bee, light seeking behavior was stronger than foraging behavior.
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