#worldhoneybeeday

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[rabbitcruiser]

World Honey Bee Day

These little creatures are nature's buzzworthy superstars! They're responsible for pollinating a third of our food supply and creating delicious honey.

We often take nature for granted. We don’t think about the pivotal role that all of life’s creatures play. However, World Honey Bee Day gives you the perfect opportunity to pay honor to the incredible honey bee. Read on to discover everything you need to know about this day, as well as the critical role that honey bees play in our everyday lives.

Learn about World Honey Bee Day

World Honey Bee Day is an awareness day whereby honey bee enthusiasts, beekeeping associations and clubs, and beekeepers celebrate the honey bee. It is a day to recognize the contribution that honey bees make to our everyday lives, as well as learning about the different steps that we can take in order to protect this vital species. On World Honey Bee Day, we also pay homage to beekeepers. After all, it is their efforts that make sure that there are healthy and well-managed bees to pollinate crops.

The health benefits of honey

Of course, honey bees provide us with honey, and this is one of the many reasons why we should be thankful for them! Honey is a golden, thick liquid, which is produced by bees using the nectar of plants that are flowering. The kind of flowers that bees visit will impact the texture, smell, and taste of the honey, resulting in different types of honey, including orange blossom, clover, acacia, and manuka honey.

There are a lot of nutritional benefits that are associated with adding a bit of honey to your diet. High-quality honey offers a number of benefits because of the antioxidants that are included. These include phenolic compounds, such as flavonoids, as well as organic acids. The antioxidants that are found in honey have been linked to lowering the risk of strokes, heart attacks, and some forms of cancer. They are also believed to assist in terms of eye health.

There have also been studies that have shown that honey can help to improve your cholesterol levels. If you have high LDL cholesterol levels, then you are going to be at a greater risk of having heart disease. This sort of cholesterol plays a massive role in atherosclerosis, which is the fatty buildup in your arteries that can cause strokes and heart attacks as well. There are more and more studies that are showing that honey can help to enhance your cholesterol levels. This is because it significantly raises the good HDL cholesterol while lowering the total of bad LDL cholesterol.

Honey cannot only benefit you in terms of consuming it, but it has been used for many years as a topical treatment for healing burns and wounds. In fact, this can be dated back to Ancient Egypt. Researchers have concluded that the healing powers of honey come from the anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects it has, as well as its ability to nourish the tissue that surrounds the wounded area.

Bees are disappearing

Bees are critical to our daily living, yet they are in decline on a worldwide scale. This is because they face a number of different threats. The use of toxic pesticides is one of these threats. They are also at risk due to habitat loss, as there has been an increase in invasive farming methods and urban developments, meaning that places that honey bees used to call home do not exist anymore. In honor of World Honey Bee Day, it is good to do your bit in order to raise awareness regarding the risks that honey bees all around the world face and the steps that we can take in order to help them. You can begin by researching this issue so that you can find more information about the different challenges that bees face and the reasons why their population is on the decline. By doing this, you will then be able to educate others and we can all do our bit to make sure that the number of bees starts to increase again, rather than decline.

History of World Honey Bee Day

World Honey Bee Day, previously known as Honey Bee Awareness Day, is an idea put together by beekeepers in the USA, who petitioned the USDA in 2009 for an official day to honor honey bees and beekeeping. A few years down the line, people across the globe are holding a date of observation every year.

The organizers of the event, on the concept of the World Honey Bee Day, have said:

Bring together beekeepers, bee associations, as well as other interested groups to connect with the communities to advance beekeeping. By working together and harnessing the efforts that so many already accomplish, and [by] using a united effort one day a year, the rewards and message is magnified many times over. We encourage bee associations, individuals, and other groups to get involved. The program is free and open to all.

How to celebrate World Honey Bee Day

Honey Bee awareness enthusiasts will likely put a bee in your bonnet and say this is not so much a day to celebrate honey bees, as it is to promote their involvement in sustainable farming.

On this day, bee lovers everywhere decorate their gardens with lavender, borage, and marjoram, the bee’s knees in pollinator lures. If you have the time and patience, bake some honey chippers and make your own honey fruit cobbler.

We also recommend that you take the time to learn more about the honey bee on this day and how we can all do our bit in order to provide them with a supportive environment. When we plant orchards, wildflowers, and other types of flowering plants, we are supporting pollinators, which includes honey bees. Honey bees depend on the nectar of different plants in order to survive. We also need to recognize that we depend on honey bees for our own survival. After all, if they did not pollinate, a lot of the nutritious plants that we need would not reproduce. It’s all about the circle of life, and we should do our bit to help other specious along the way.

Another way to celebrate World Honey Bee Day is by enjoying a honey-based treat. There are lots of different options for you to choose from. Whether you’re looking for a tasty dessert or you want to incorporate honey into your main meal, we have got you covered. Here are some tasty suggestions to consider: honey-roast confit of duck, honey cake, vanilla and honey madeleines, stir-fried pork with honey and ginger, salted honey fudge and chocolate tart, honey mustard grilled salmon, homemade crumpets with burnt honey butter, and crispy honey buffalo wings. Is your mouth watering yet?

And because you’ve been as busy as a bee all day, sit back and watch Hitchcock’s ‘The Bees’. You’ll count your blessings honey bees are nothing like South American killer bees!

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[cyjichan]

World Honey Bee Day

It helps to create the awareness about the dangers that these honey bee are now facing, with recommended ways to solve the problem.

#worldhoneybeeday #searchengineoptimization #digitalmarketingstrategy #seo

[beeingapis]

Covering all the celebratory bases. 😁

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 here are two golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:

Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r Aberdeen University Library

Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v Bodleian Libraries

[iffoundreturntosea]

August 17, Day 229/230

Day 229 2015

#octopus #attached #stuffedanimal #toocute #red #spots #lazyboy #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 230 2016

Apparently I eat a lot of orange food...

#pizza #cheese #orange #shadesoforange #august #picoftheday #project365 #day230

Pizza with an english muffin crust! Yum!

Day 229 2017

Paw prints

#pawprints #concrete #street #animal #kittycat #nature #natureconquers #august #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 229 2018

Got my hairs trimmed. Tris has been cutting my hairs since I can remember.

#haircut #hair #trim #growingmyhairout #longhair #longhairdocarebecauseitshot #gonnadonate #feet #shoes #hairstylist #sandals #bekind #bekindtooneanother #walkinsomeoneeslesshoes #august #blackandwhite #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 229 2019

I have better/prettier pictures of honey bees but today I picked one I took of a bee I saved from drowning in a pool.

#summer #hot #cooldowndontdrown #neededhelp #help #bee #honeybee #worldhoneybeeday #august #august17 #2019 #nationalday #nationaldaycalendar #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 230 2020

Bass Hall in Ft.Worth, music to my ears.

#basshall #fortworth #angel #trumpet #building #closeup #architecture #august #august17 #2020 #picoftheday #project365 #day230

Day 229 2021

Cat fight over the coffee pot...just another random scene we come across

#auntlifeisthebestlife #niece #toys #imagine #create #fun #smile #august #august17 #2021 #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 229 2022

Stayed in today but I have an abundance of beach pics to make up for it!

#seagulls #birds #beach #gulf #water #nature #august #august17 #2022 #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 229 2023

💙❤️

Coming together

#create #art #doodle #color #highlighter #august #august17 #2023 #picoftheday #project365 #day229

Day 230 2024

I forgot *cry if you need to. I also need to find chocolate still.

#alist #dailytheme #badday #tryingtomakeitbetter #august #august17 #2024 #picoftheday #project365 #day230

Update: chocolate found

[mtaartsdesign]

Wishing all a sweet Saturday on #WorldHoneyBeeDay!

Image: Andrea Dezsö, "Nature Wall" (2018) at New Utrecht Ave (N) station.

[scottsidea]

Trying out new honey for #worldhoneybeeday today. Flavored honey from @alohahoneyfarm in Hawaii. Hibiscus honey 🌺 🍯 in my morning tea! Come on! So good…. Can’t wait to try the cacao 🍫! #honeybeeday #hibiscushoney #honey #honeybees #bees #honeybee #bee (at Lower Haight) https://www.instagram.com/p/CS12NEXlC-2/?utm_medium=tumblr

[joqatana]

It’s #worldhoneybeeday. These pieces were made by my mom in the late 1970s. The matching bracelet was donated to a KQED auction in 1981I think. The pendants were in the deYoung Museum Catalog. 14K gold life-sized honeybees, honeycomb & Citrine honey. . . #honeybeejewelry #goldhoneybees #goldjewelry #carrieadell #carrieadelldesigner #kqed #scalemodelgoldbee #designerjewelry #deyoungmuseum #contemporarydesigngroup #designerjewelry #carriedaway #carriedawayjewelry #americancraftcouncil https://www.instagram.com/p/CD7MfMppHFd/?igshid=b8h1cvb36ycm

[rabbitcruiser]

World Honey Bee Day

These little creatures are nature's buzzworthy superstars! They're responsible for pollinating a third of our food supply and creating delicious honey.

We often take nature for granted. We don’t think about the pivotal role that all of life’s creatures play. However, World Honey Bee Day gives you the perfect opportunity to pay honor to the incredible honey bee. Read on to discover everything you need to know about this day, as well as the critical role that honey bees play in our everyday lives.

Learn about World Honey Bee Day

World Honey Bee Day is an awareness day whereby honey bee enthusiasts, beekeeping associations and clubs, and beekeepers celebrate the honey bee. It is a day to recognize the contribution that honey bees make to our everyday lives, as well as learning about the different steps that we can take in order to protect this vital species. On World Honey Bee Day, we also pay homage to beekeepers. After all, it is their efforts that make sure that there are healthy and well-managed bees to pollinate crops.

The health benefits of honey

Of course, honey bees provide us with honey, and this is one of the many reasons why we should be thankful for them! Honey is a golden, thick liquid, which is produced by bees using the nectar of plants that are flowering. The kind of flowers that bees visit will impact the texture, smell, and taste of the honey, resulting in different types of honey, including orange blossom, clover, acacia, and manuka honey.

There are a lot of nutritional benefits that are associated with adding a bit of honey to your diet. High-quality honey offers a number of benefits because of the antioxidants that are included. These include phenolic compounds, such as flavonoids, as well as organic acids. The antioxidants that are found in honey have been linked to lowering the risk of strokes, heart attacks, and some forms of cancer. They are also believed to assist in terms of eye health.

There have also been studies that have shown that honey can help to improve your cholesterol levels. If you have high LDL cholesterol levels, then you are going to be at a greater risk of having heart disease. This sort of cholesterol plays a massive role in atherosclerosis, which is the fatty buildup in your arteries that can cause strokes and heart attacks as well. There are more and more studies that are showing that honey can help to enhance your cholesterol levels. This is because it significantly raises the good HDL cholesterol while lowering the total of bad LDL cholesterol.

Honey cannot only benefit you in terms of consuming it, but it has been used for many years as a topical treatment for healing burns and wounds. In fact, this can be dated back to Ancient Egypt. Researchers have concluded that the healing powers of honey come from the anti-inflammatory and antibacterial effects it has, as well as its ability to nourish the tissue that surrounds the wounded area.

Bees are disappearing

Bees are critical to our daily living, yet they are in decline on a worldwide scale. This is because they face a number of different threats. The use of toxic pesticides is one of these threats. They are also at risk due to habitat loss, as there has been an increase in invasive farming methods and urban developments, meaning that places that honey bees used to call home do not exist anymore. In honor of World Honey Bee Day, it is good to do your bit in order to raise awareness regarding the risks that honey bees all around the world face and the steps that we can take in order to help them. You can begin by researching this issue so that you can find more information about the different challenges that bees face and the reasons why their population is on the decline. By doing this, you will then be able to educate others and we can all do our bit to make sure that the number of bees starts to increase again, rather than decline.

History of World Honey Bee Day

World Honey Bee Day, previously known as Honey Bee Awareness Day, is an idea put together by beekeepers in the USA, who petitioned the USDA in 2009 for an official day to honor honey bees and beekeeping. A few years down the line, people across the globe are holding a date of observation every year.

The organizers of the event, on the concept of the World Honey Bee Day, have said:

Bring together beekeepers, bee associations, as well as other interested groups to connect with the communities to advance beekeeping. By working together and harnessing the efforts that so many already accomplish, and [by] using a united effort one day a year, the rewards and message is magnified many times over. We encourage bee associations, individuals, and other groups to get involved. The program is free and open to all.

How to celebrate World Honey Bee Day

Honey Bee awareness enthusiasts will likely put a bee in your bonnet and say this is not so much a day to celebrate honey bees, as it is to promote their involvement in sustainable farming.

On this day, bee lovers everywhere decorate their gardens with lavender, borage, and marjoram, the bee’s knees in pollinator lures. If you have the time and patience, bake some honey chippers and make your own honey fruit cobbler.

We also recommend that you take the time to learn more about the honey bee on this day and how we can all do our bit in order to provide them with a supportive environment. When we plant orchards, wildflowers, and other types of flowering plants, we are supporting pollinators, which includes honey bees. Honey bees depend on the nectar of different plants in order to survive. We also need to recognize that we depend on honey bees for our own survival. After all, if they did not pollinate, a lot of the nutritious plants that we need would not reproduce. It’s all about the circle of life, and we should do our bit to help other specious along the way.

Another way to celebrate World Honey Bee Day is by enjoying a honey-based treat. There are lots of different options for you to choose from. Whether you’re looking for a tasty dessert or you want to incorporate honey into your main meal, we have got you covered. Here are some tasty suggestions to consider: honey-roast confit of duck, honey cake, vanilla and honey madeleines, stir-fried pork with honey and ginger, salted honey fudge and chocolate tart, honey mustard grilled salmon, homemade crumpets with burnt honey butter, and crispy honey buffalo wings. Is your mouth watering yet?

And because you’ve been as busy as a bee all day, sit back and watch Hitchcock’s ‘The Bees’. You’ll count your blessings honey bees are nothing like South American killer bees!

Source

[mkmoondust]

Yesterday was #WorldHoneyBeeDay and as many of you know I'm obsessed with flowers. Flowers wouldn't be possible without bees of all kinds. I'm also obsessed with the Starless Sea by @erinmorgenstern and I've really tried to embody the keepers of the story in the work I've encapsulated within this journal that @jmbat6 has the pleasure of being the first to annotate and explore. There's also been a many years' long inside joke with @katee_w17 about bees and history that starts to peak through the writers block and digging a little too deeply. Or maybe needing to dig a little deeper (living in Louisiana when Princess and the Frog came out I have that song in my head ALL the time). Unfortunately I was under the weather so I only got to write/collage but I would have loved to be outside planting new flowers. Or donating to an incredible cause or exploring @gilcrease_orchard - but there's still time for all of that as I begin to feel better and better. How did you celebrate or how will you care for the bees moving forward? https://www.instagram.com/p/ChjMccrO9IE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[b-havior]

🍯🐝💛🖤 Shout out to my babies on #WorldHoneyBeeDay They are doing their best despite the drought conditions #bhavior (at Topanga, California) https://www.instagram.com/p/ChfsjhRPraM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[arthistoryanimalia]

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:

Perfume Bottle, c.1893Designed by Paulding Farnham (USA, 1859-1927) for Tiffany & Co.

Gold, agate, yellow sapphires, demantoid garnets, red garnets, amethyst

3 5/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in., 212.9 Grams (9.2 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm, 6.845 Troy Ounces)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 65.143

“The agate body of this perfume bottle was carved to resemble honeycomb, while the gold and silver ornament depicting bees and honeysuckle flowers continues the theme. Originally, a conical yellow sapphire adorned the top of the lid. The report by the French ministry of commerce on Tiffany’s display at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago highlighted this bottle as a particularly fine and original example of the firm’s oeuvre.”

[poofbeegone]

#worldhoneybeeday 👑🐝 https://www.instagram.com/p/ChfpgxCgwHJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[opticalforum]

World Honey Bee Day is held on the third Saturday in August. It's observance is a celebrated historical event for beekeepers and honey lovers. #Optometry #OpticalForum #WorldHoneyBeeDay https://www.instagram.com/p/ChfgX5qtKa0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[giftingqueenltd]

World Honey Bee Day

Hard at work... I know the feeling 😀