When I was a teen, I was known as "the girl who picks up bees" because
I was always toting around some bumblebee I'd picked up at the local
spring.  (They would congregate on the mud to get water, and I found that
if I put a little water on my finger, I could pick them up and keep them
happily lapping up liquid while I toted them around and showed them off to
friends.  A little sugar-water worked just as well on the honeybees.)
Needless to say, I had a bit of a reputation as an eccentric...but aren't
all bee folks?  ;-)
 
Jane B.   [[log in to unmask]]