#world bee day

[sacramentohistorymuseum]

May 20th is World Bee Day! This day reminds us of the value of bees, especially as pollinators. Considering Sacramento’s longest running newspaper is The Sacramento Bee, we couldn’t pass this day up.

For today, Howard discussed why The Sacramento Bee calls itself The Bee. Shown at the beginning of the video is the mosaic from the entrance and facade of a previous Sacramento Bee building that was demolished in 1956. Howard also letterpress printed an image of a busy bee from an electrotype, made about 130 years ago, from the Lewis Winter Collection. The text below the print of a cast iron stove and oven was typeset in 24 point Engravers Old English and reads, “World Bee Day.”

Lewis Winter was a woodcut artist and engraver who had his business at 627 J Street in Sacramento from 1888 to 1910. Many of the cuts in his collection at our museum are of items that would have been featured in newspapers and magazines in the 1890s. This was printed with black rubber base ink using our Washington hand press.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝:

Netsuke of Bee on a Leaf Japan, 19th c. Ivory, H 1 1/8 x W 1 3/4 x D 1 in. (2.9 x 4.4 x 2.5 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 91.1.985

EDIT: bee imposter alert - this is likely a misidentified #cicada nymph. Oops! But also, cool, because it's almost always adult cicadas depicted in Japanese art. Thanks to @ubi@ecoevo.social for the ID!

[todayontumblr]

Saturday May 20.

This is no ordinary Saturday. This is the weekend of World Bee Day, our beloveds. So let us give thanks.

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Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities.

Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity.

To raise awareness of the importance of pollinators, the threats they face and their contribution to sustainable development, the UN designated 20 May as World Bee Day.

The goal is to strengthen measures aimed at protecting bees and other pollinators, which would significantly contribute to solving problems related to the global food supply and eliminate hunger in developing countries.

We all depend on pollinators and it is, therefore, crucial to monitor their decline and halt the loss of biodiversity.

[inshelliesworld]

HAPPY WORLD BEE DAY!

🐝🐝🐝

To my mutuals who are bee lovers, bee farmers, or just bee-youtiful...

💛🖤💛

@sarahdonald87 @georgiapeach30513

[petula-xx]

Today is WORLD BEE DAY!

[arabriddler]

HAPPY WORLD BEE DAY FROM YOUR LOCAL BEE LOVER

[birdiebees]

It’s their day! Happy World Bee Day 🐝 buzz buzz

[rorimagical]

It was world bee day today! So that means it was also world Beedrill day 🐝🌍

[fruitviking]

Happy World Bee Day!

[hometoursandotherstuff]

[20may]

Be engaged in pollinator-Friendly agricultural production.

Now is the time to re-think how we relate to nature and pollinators and take action to support them and the livelihoods they support.

We depend on bees and other pollinators for our existence. They play a vital role in agriculture and global ecosystems by maintaining our food supply and contributing to biodiversity and other ecosystem services. The vast majority of pollinators are wild, including over 20 000 species of bees and many types of butterflies, birds, bats and other insects. However, in many areas, bees, pollinators, and many other insects are declining in abundance and diversity. Most of these drivers are human-induced.

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldBeeDay 🐝:

Bee-shaped ornaments Korea, Goryeo dynasty (918–1392) Gold, H. 15/16 in. (2.4 cm) x W. 7/8 in. (2.2 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 17.175.53, 17.175.38

[jadeseadragon]

Repost @baytal.fann

"In the Holy Qur’an a chapter is dedicated to the bee, called An-Nahl. This literally translates to ‘The Bee’ & it describes the bee’s way of life, & how Muslims should be more like them.

For World Bee Day we are celebrating the bee in Islam 🐝

Al Nahl, Chapter 16, 68-69, talks about a variety of topics, but Allah specifically chose the title The Bee to catch the attention of the readers. Bees are said to be Allah’s miracles; the way they function and how they behave, are to be held as an example.

The significance of Al Nahl as Chapter 16 is important. The only verse in this chapter that mentions bees is made up of 16 words & 16 different Arabic letters. Coincidentally, female bees have 16 pairs of chromosomes, whereas males have 16 chromosomes.

What is fascinating about the bees in the Qur’an is that it was written from a scientific standpoint where the colony, roles, and practices of bees are observed. These characteristics & traits were used as a figure of speech for the follower reading the Qur’an.

A reason why an entire chapter in the Qur’an has been devoted to the bee is that Allah has enabled the honey bee to produce a substance within which there is a cure for all mankind. Honey!

Bees live less than 40 days, visit at least 1000 flowers & produces less than a teaspoon of honey. For us it is only a teaspoon of honey, but for the bee it is a lifetime of work.

Thank You Bees!

Beautiful art by @lucythomasinmorrish please do check out her incredible paintings."

[academicelephant]

Oops, I apparently missed the wolrd bee day (it was yesterday). Anyway, bees are crucial to the ecosystem as they are the single most important species of pollinators. If bees were to become extinct, it would affect almost all living things on this planet, including us. This is why it is highly important to protect them and their environment. Everyone can help by, for example, not killing any bees, planting bee-friendly flowers, getting a bee hotel, buying organic food, and avoiding the use of pesticides

[julialundman]

World Bee Day 🐝 (part of a triptych, oil and gold leaf on panel, 2019)

[allthedesiredusernamesaretaken]

In cumulative hours, honey bees sleep between 5 and 8 hours a day, similar to the number of hours humans sleep. Some species will sleep right inside flowers.