‘I could watch her for hours’: the woman who rescued a bee and created a buzz
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- Gilly McArthur rescued an injured queen bee, named Phoebee, from the roadside 52 days ago.
- Despite a broken wing and McArthur’s expectation that she would die quickly, Phoebee is still active and climbing over her rescuer.
Fifty-two days ago, Phoebee was lying beside a road in the blistering sun with a broken wing. Now the queen bee climbs up Gilly McArthur’s arm, reaches the nape of her neck and disappears into her hair.
McArthur said she could not leave the injured bee by the roadside. She brought Phoebee home, made her a bed of flowers and expected her to die within a day or so.
Instead, Phoebee has carried on, turning a roadside rescue into an unexpectedly affectionate bond between a woman and a bee.
I couldn’t leave her by the roadside. So I bought her home and made her a bed of flowers. I thought she’d be dead in a day or so.
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