Little Good Deeds

[lady-janine]

This afternoon I have persuaded to go outside : 2 butterflies; 1 wasp and 1 wren.

Have any of you managed to carry out Good Deeds?

[Prudie]

I've let a lot of flies out of the window today without swatting them. I think that was quite good of me considering what a nuisance they are.

[burlyshirley]

Yes, the other day, I saw a huge bee struggling to walk along the path, so I found a large leaf and managed to get it to crawl on to the leaf and then popped it onto a bush with flowers on it where I saw other bees gathering pollen. It started rushing around on the flowers as if it had been given a new lease of life. Made me smile.

[Tilly2]

I sat and listened to a really boring person and pretended to be interested.

[Redhelen72]

I have killed loads of flies today and sucked them up in the dyson!
I put my neighbour bins out as I saw him packing his car up with the kids for a break away

[Ken4155]

Yes, i caught a bluebottle* and stuck it in a spider web in my kitchen. It's not there now so i'm thinking there's one very grateful spider in there:-)

*I have one of those magnetic mesh screens but my dog was laying half in and half out of the house, creating a gap for the pesky bluebottle to gain entry.

[fbg40]

Heard a rustling in my conservatory a few weeks ago, and there stuck in our vertical blinds was a juvenile woodpecker !! Eventually managed to catch him using a tea towel, took him into the garden and off he went !!
FBG40

[fripfrip]

Found two exhausted bees in my garden,mixed some sugar and water and put it on a large leaf,put the bees on the leaf and if by magic it revived them.

[pastafreak]

I read somewhere that we are not supposed to kill flies this year. So much for good deeds.

[calmck]

Two weeks ago grandson rescued a baby hedgehog from the dogs. Bathed, fed and weighed 300gms. Now 700gms living in a hamster environment. Fed hedgehog pellets. Runs around with grandson outside every evening. Likes the hamster wheel. Sleeps all day under an old gig blanket, his choice. The cats watch him play through the glass of his home

[pastafreak]

That ^^^ is because their numbers have gone down...

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/experts-warning-people-not-kill-24101721

[cashier]

One bee inside house. Managed to get it out and put it on a weed with lots of yellow flowers.

[Atheist]

Apart from being vegetarian and not automatically crushing money-spiders or ants who have the audacity to crawl on me in summer, I'm ruthless about slugs, snails, wasps and hornets. They eat my seedlings and suck the juice from my grapes (as well as stinging me if I reprove them with a disdainful curl of the lip).
I'm no angel.

[jourdain2]

I keep an 'insect extraction kit' in the conservatory. A plastic cup and a piece of card suffice. It is in almost constant use at the moment! Handily, it works for wasps as well as bees....... can anyone tell me why there is the need for wasps to exist?

[gness]

Oh, Atheist. I'm surprised that as a vegetarian you don't know the importance of wasps. Worth a google.

[Atheist]

jourdain, there isn't a need for wasps to exist. They just do because they are successful at surviving and reproducing.
Excuse my literalness, but I've got into the habit after years of reading rather woolly posts. I take the questions as serious enquiries, rather than the twinkly-eyed friendly empathetic outreaches which they undoubtedly are.
OMG, I'm so pompous and priggish tonight.
Tant Pis.

[lady-janine]

So very glad that I'm not the only one. Must admit I do kill flies and we have plenty of them this sunny weather but then we do back onto a fiels of cows one side and sheep the other. Both of these animals seem to attract flies. I've got fly netting over most of the windows but they still seem to get indoors.

[Ken4155]

Pasta, ".....not suppose to kill flies...."

I didn't kill it. I stunned it with a rolled up magazine, put it in the web and the spider killed it. Spider lives matter:-)

[lady-janine]

lol @ Ken.

no good deeds yet today.