Quicksand Fans

Do not attempt to rescue bugs who have fallen into the hot tub. I did a few minutes ago and got stung. Fortunately it was a sweat bee and the sting only lasts a minute or two.

Many years ago when I was a child, there was a "dead" bumblebee floating in my kiddie pool. I picked it up out of the water, and wound up getting stung by the bee, which wasn't dead after all! Now, whenever I see anything that can sting floating in water that I want to remove, I use a stick or something to lift it out.

As a kid I had a very Disney movie conception of things...rescue the drowning bee and it will be my friend!
Yeah, no...not so much

my experience was with a chipmunk that our cat was about to kill... i stepped in, picked up the little guy--- but instead of being grateful, it bit me! i threw it across the yard, the ingrate