A Bee Watering Station With Marbles Beautiful See Here

OK, this might come across as sort of strange, but have you ever just watched a bee buzzing around your garden and thought, “Huh, does that little guy have any water?” Probably not, right? Same. But then I heard about this “bee watering station with marbles” and, of course, I couldn’t get it out of my head. Like, I have been planting all the flowers and have not given a single thought to the fact that bees, um, drink too? Whoops.

So apparently bees get thirsty—especially in the summer when everything is dry and hot—and they are not very good at finding a safe place to drink from. Puddles dry up. Bird baths are essentially swimming pools. So this strange DIY pops up—a shallow plate-like bowl, with some marbles inside and enough water to wet the marbles. That’s it. It’s basically a bee day spa.

our don’t need much—a bowl—preferably short and wide. Honestly, this is the call to action for that dusty dish hiding in the back corner of your cabinet that doesn’t match anything and that you just can’t bring yourself to throw away. THAT one. And then marbles—if you didn’t tear apart the house looking for a random stash of old marbles from a board game or your childhood, then just grab a bag at the dollar store. They are multi-colored, fairly cheap, and hastily arranging them in the bowl will be weirdly enjoyable.

So you dump the marbles in the bowl and fill it just enough that it touches the tops of the marbles but not enough that they disappear. Because here’s the thing: bees don’t swim. They aren’t trying to re-enact Baywatch. They need something to land on while they sip out of the bowl. This is where the marbles come in—a little non-drowning perch situation. It’s actually kind of brilliant when you think about it.