Posts Tagged: National Honey Bee Awareness Day

About Those Pickled Peppers

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers;A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked;If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?--Mother GooseIf Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers, he couldn't have done it without the honey...

Foraging Honey Bee

A HONEY BEE sips nectar from the flower of a pepper plant. Without the pollination services of the honey bee, there would be no peppers. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Packing Pollen

PACKING POLLEN, a honey bee forages in a pepper plant. Peppers are among the vegetables planted in the Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven at UC Davis. The grand opening celebration is from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 11. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Bee-ing Aware

Are you ready to celebrate something really important in your life?Without this "something," your table fare would be sparse. What?Honey bees.And now, there's an official day to celebrate them.The second annual National Honey Bee Awareness Day is set Saturday, Aug. 21.The good folks at Pennsylvania...

Vegetable

VEGETABLE--One of the crops that honey bees pollinate is the cucumber. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Fruit

FRUIT--One of the fruits that the honey bee pollinates is the pomegranate. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Nut

NUT--One of the nuts that the honey bee pollinates is the almond. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

All Hail the Honey Bee

All hail the honey bee.  Tomorrow  (Saturday, Aug. 22) is the first-ever National Honey Bee Awareness Day, as proclaimed by U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. It's "hive time" this insect has its own day. After all, as Vilsack says, bee pollination is responsible for “$15 billion in added...

Honey Bee on Almond

HONEY BEE heads toward an almond blossom. Saturday, Aug. 22 is National Honey Bee Awareness Day. Without honey bees, we would not have almonds. Two hives per acre are needed to pollinate California's 700,000 acres. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Honey Bee on Buckwheat

HONEY BEE nectaring Eastern buckwheat in Sonoma County. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

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