What to do?

[Miss Bob]

I know nothing about bees and I was just handed a blob of dirt that I was told has a queen honey bee and babies in it.
Is there anything I can to do for them?

[marksmith]

If its in a blob of dirt.... I'd seriously suspect that it is honeybees.

[Keith13]

Can you maybe give a little more detail so we can assist you better. I'm not sure what you mean by a blob of dirt

Keith

[Miss Bob]

A friend was digging out an old flower box and found what he says is a queen bee and babies? There are little bees crawling around and supposedly larva(?) in the dirt blob he brought me.


Got a cow calving, be right back (I hope)

[Miss Bob]

So, I put the blob of dirt in a box?
Is there any chance they will survive and make colony or is a waste of time?

[D Coates]

Not honey bees.  Those are some other type of bees, possibly bumble.

[Miss Bob]

D Coates is right!
(Put on my good glasses and went to Google)
So, still need to know what to do with them, any ideas?

While I am here, 1 more question?
Our warm spring seemed to bring the real honey bees out before the flowers. They were all over the cracked corn I put out for my birds? For future reference, is this OK or is there something else I could or should have put out for them?

[Bee Happy]

I've seen the cracked corn question answered somewhere else. They get into that stuff when they're desperate for a protein source, they'll start collecting downright useless stuff by that point. maybe a feral colony without enough stores? Our cedars pollinate just at the end of the off-season - may not be great stuff for them, but at least they get a little real pollen before the oaks pollinate and the flow gets going. If you want to feed the bees a pollen substitute would do the trick. The objective though, is for the bees to adapt/evolve their collection, storing, and feeding habits to match the area they live in.