Rural Gardening: My water tank is being overrun by honeybees, 1 by Mountaindweller

Mountaindweller wrote:
Well, here's a bit of humor for all the bee lovers out there. I still don't have a hive of my own, and I still have no idea whether these visiting bees are from a wild colony or somebody's property, but I've grown quite attached to the little visitors. I can't walk past the tank without rescueing any swimmers. And I recently discovered that often they aren't drowned so much as freezing to death in the very cold water. Now you must picture a little tiny honeybee, legs curled up to its chest, wings soaked and sticking to whatever surface I've moved it to ( carefully, with a stick, they still try to sting!) and If you can, try to imagine my warm finger resting on the little bee body until I see more activity. I really did bring one back to movable temps that way. But after that I have just transferred them to the top shelf of my little cheapy plastic 'greenhouse', the kind that bring to mind a porta-potty. Inside there they quickly warm up and fly away. I've been saving several a day now.
And I made this styrofoam cover, which is very ugly, but floats nicely and gives them an 'out' if they don't get hypothermia too soon. It might even keep the water temps up, who knows?
So, yes, life without television is not for the weak, and maybe this desert sun is stronger than I thought. But I'm pretty sure I'm harmless, especially to the bees! And don't even get me started about the dog mansion I built for the shepherd and boxer!