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National Honey Bee Day: A Buzzworthy Day, Indeed
Hear that buzz? Are you ready for National Honey Bee Day? It's held the third Saturday of August and that's tomorrow. Launched in 2009 by a small group of beekeepers petitioning the U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture (USDA), the day basically "honors" honey bees and beekeeping. We first...
Honey bee pollinating an almond blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee pollinating a strawberry blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee pollinating a pomegranate blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee pollinating an apple blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bees pollinating an onion umbel (flowering head). (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee pollinating a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee pollinating a sunflower blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee heading toward a plum blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee pollinating pear blossoms. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A Honey of a Day--And It Gets Better!
Saturday, Aug. 19 promises to be a honey of a day--in more ways than one! And it gets better! It's National Honey Bee Day or National Honey Bee Awareness Day, launched in 2009 by newly appointed U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Thomas Vilsak during his first year of office with the Obama...
Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño shows a frame to her class at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Students take notes as Extension apiculturist Elina Lastro Niño shows opens a hive at the Harry H. Laidlaw Jr. Honey Bee Research Facility. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Pretty in Pink--And in Other Colors, Too!
They're pretty in pink. Well, not just pink. All other colors, too. It's National Honey Bee Day on Saturday, Aug. 20. That's when we officially celebrate the honey bee, Apis mellifera, which the European colonists brought to the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1622. The honey bee didn't...
A honey bee heads toward rock purslane. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging on zinnia. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This bee took a liking to a nectarine blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Why She's Packing Pollen That Way
If you've ever seen honey bees foraging on primrose, you may have seen something unusual. What's with the pollen hanging below their hind legs as they buzz from primrose to primrose? There's a reason for that. Distinguished emeritus professor Robbin Thorp of the UC Davis Department of Entomology...
A honey bee prepares to visit another primose. Note the stringy mass of pollen hanging from her hind legs. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee rapidly covering the distance to the primrose. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Almost in! Honey bee partially enters a primrose blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Honey bee foraging inside a primrose blossom. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Celebrating the Honey Bee
Confusion exists as to whether National Honey Bee Day is Aug. 15 or Aug. 22. The group that formed National Honey Bee Awareness Day says its Aug. 15. Pennsylvania Apiculture, aka PennApic, launched the National Honey Bee Awareness Day in 2009. The U.S. Congress, however,...
A honey bee gathering pollen from a California golden poppy, California's state flower. The honey bee originated from Africa. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A golden honey bee in a California golden poppy. The poppy yields only pollen, not nectar. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
