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World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

Marjo — Mon, 20 May 2019 14:21:56 GMT

Hi guys,

I hope your Monday is going well.

Today is World Bee Day, which the United Nations has designated to raise awareness of the importance of bees, the threats they face and their importance to sustainable development. Bees contribute to food security and nutrition, as well as the environment in general, helping to maintain biodiversity. They are increasingly under threat from human activities.

Our resident bee expert @TallTrees probably will know more, but here's a few basic but interesting bee facts I learned by searching information online!

They communicate with different chemicals and odours, but honeybees also communicate by dancing
Bees do not sleep but they remain still to preserve energy for the next day
A strong colony of bees flies the equivalent distance from Earth to the Moon every day
Bees use the position of the sun to navigate around
They have 6 legs; the rear pair has thick hairs to store pollen, and the front pair has slots to clean the bee's antenna. They have 4 wings and 5 eyes.

You can read more about World Bee Day here.

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Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

jonsie — Mon, 20 May 2019 16:01:33 GMT

I've so been looking forward to this day.....

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

Marjo — Mon, 20 May 2019 16:15:47 GMT

@jonsie wrote:

I've so been looking forward to this day.....

Buzzzzzing with excitement @jonsie ?

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

TallTrees — Mon, 20 May 2019 19:00:08 GMT

Hi @Marjo

That is a great day for sure. Of course we have been celebrating with Nectar all day

The girls are buzy.

Thank you for posting World Bee Day ~ the bees I help to breed are one of the best pollinators for all the Orchards.

Love your bees

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

pgn — Mon, 20 May 2019 21:00:53 GMT

@TallTrees wrote:

Love your bees

Bee-lieve in them?

You may not have seen this interesting item:

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

jonsie — Mon, 20 May 2019 22:13:02 GMT

@Marjo wrote:
@jonsie wrote:
I've so been looking forward to this day.....
Buzzzzzing with excitement @jonsie ?

That would be a no @Marjo , the day has thankfully totally passed me by. There are some really ridiculous days and to me, this is one of them. Sorry for you bee lovers....but I even hate sickly honey!

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

TallTrees — Tue, 21 May 2019 21:02:08 GMT

Thanks @pgn for posting Flybe really brilliant.🤩🤩

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

pgn — Wed, 22 May 2019 05:45:40 GMT

Did you see the "we fooled you" and blooper reel? They had fun...

Re: World Bee Day 20 May 🐝

TallTrees — Wed, 22 May 2019 05:56:31 GMT

More than Brilliant @pgn

but of course they do transport bees all over the US

not only the honey bee but the bee I breed because

they are very easy to transport once they are in the

cocoon stage.

Thought it was too good to be true ~ but "one" never knows these days and I suspect that this could be more truth than fiction before too long.

Well done! Happy Buzzing