Bee Bionic: Love the Honey Bees Giveaway
In honor of National Pollinator’s Week, Burt’s Bees and Bionic Beauty have teamed up to giveaway 5 sets of Burt’s Bees Radiance Kits to BB readers! Bee sure to read the rules below. 
In order to enter: Leave a comment below containing two facts about honey bees or CCD (Colony Collapse Disorder). You can find bee-friendly facts at the following websites: Haagen Daaz Loves Honey Bees, Pollinator.Org, and Burt’s Bees.
Here are a few facts to get your honey juices flowing… Did you know that pollinators are responsible for 1/3 of all the food we eat?!? And there’s some studies that show that eating locally farmed honey can improve your resistance to those pesky allergies!
The Prizes: Each bee-utiful winner will receive a Radiance Kit valued at $15.00!
- Mini Exfoliating Body Bar (.80 oz.)
- Exfoliating Body Wash (1 fl. oz.)
- Mini Body Lotion (.50 fl. oz.)
- Day Creme (.25 oz.)
- Night Creme (.25 oz.)
- Eye Creme (packette) (.67 oz.)
- Full Size Lip Shimmer (.0975 oz.)
The Rules: Five (5) winners will bee chosen from the qualified entrants and will receive the Burt’s Bees Radiance skincare gift set as detailed above. To qualify for entry, you must follow the entry rules as outlined in this post. The Burt’s Bees giveaway is open to USA residents only (sorry, Burt’s Bees only ships in the US). Please only enter once; duplicate entries will bee detected and discarded. Entry deadline is June 28, 2008 at midnight US ET. The winners will be chosen via Random.org and will bee announced here on Bionic Beauty and contacted via email.
*Please note that I will not share your email address with anyone! I only use your email address to contact you if you are a winner.
Please tell your friends and family about this Bee Bionic Giveaway, the more the merrier! Best of luck to everyone!
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Woo hoo! Here’s my 2 facts!
1. In hives hit by CCD, adult workers simply fly away and disappear, leaving a small cluster of workers and the hive’s young to fend for themselves.
2. Stressed out by cross-country truck journeys and drought, attacked by viruses and introduced parasites, or whacked out by harmful new pesticides, some researchers believe the bees’ natural defences may have simply given way.
Fun contest!
We rely on honey bees are responsible for 1/3 of our food supply; they pollinate our fruits, vegetables and flowers.
The mysterious disappearance of bees is called colony collapse disorder and is a threat to honeybees.
1. The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.
2. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
Great giveaway! <3
What a great contest! I LOVE LOVE LOVE Burt’s Bees!!!!!!!
Here’s my two facts:
1. Honeybees account for 80% of all insect pollination. Bees collect 66 pounds of pollen per year, per hive. Wow!
2. Honeybees are not native to the USA. They are European in origin, and were brought to North America by the early settlers.
Great contest! Thank you!!
I love your blog and thank you for introducing me to Colony Collapse Disorder – I’d never heard of it until now (sorry – I am a literature major and often miss out on what is REALLY happening in the world. Poor excuse but true).
I read some reports on CCD and here is what I found out:
1. CCD is when a bee hive is abandoned by its workers who go off to die together in a field. They mysteriously leave behind their queen and her young as well as a healthy supply of food.
2. Although a substantial scientific study was carried out by scientists in 2007, this disorder still needs more study to find out why it happens. Those 2007 scientists suggest that one cause could be a virus but other studies suggest that stress, pesticides, and climate change are also feasible possibilities.
Thanks for urging me to learn this stuff – I would not have thought to do so without your contest!
Peace,
Kate
Honeybees pollinate one third of the fruit and vegetables we eat.
Estimates show that 23% of commercial beekeeping operations in the U.S, suffered from Colony Collapse Disorder in the winter of 2006-2007.
The mysterious disappearance of bees, called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD), is a growing threat to honeybees, the mainstay of pollination services in agriculture.
Did you know that every third bite of food we eat depends on bees for pollination?
Great contest. I hope I win!!
Here are two facts:
1. The almond crop is 100% reliant on honeybee pollination.
2. In order to produce quality fruit, a cherry blossom must get 100 grains of pollen from a honeybee.
I love Burt’s Bees and I hope to get this giveaway! MY facts are:
- CCD is responsible for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations.
- Aside from CCD, habitat destruction, misuse of pesticides, invasive species and global warming also contribute to harming the bees.
Thanks!
Wow! I’ve actually learned a lot today! My facts are:
1. More than 80% of all cherries rely on honey bee pollination.
2. Honey bees can carry as much as 100,000 grains of pollen at once!
Thanks!
My 2 facts:
~Bees have 5 eyes
~Losing its stinger will cause a bee to die.
Mostly, I’m amazed that there really is a bearded man named Burt! He looks just like the graphic on the product! Love their products btw!
This is a cool idea. I just saw the movie “The Happening” and the idea of all the honey bees disappearing is very alarming.
1. Without honey bees, strawberries would be mis-shapen and smaller in size.
2. Bee pollination is essential for over 40 ingredients in Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream.
Save the Honey Bees!!!
Pear blossoms produce a very diluted nectar and bees will often visit another flower if one is nearby.
Bees benefit from the copious amounts of nectar and pollen raspberry flowers produce.
2 facts
1. honeybee:
30% of the fruit- and vegetable-producing plants we rely on to feed our families need honeybee pollination to thrive
2. Colony Collapse Disorder:
Colony Collapse Disorder is the sudden die-off of honeybee colonies that has been occurring across the U.S. for several years now
Honey Bees help pollinate products that amount to 20 billion annually in just the US alone.
Honey Bees must visit two million flowers, and fly 55,000 miles just to produce one pound of honey!
Great contest, CCD needs all the awareness and publicity to get people to contribute!!
Bees benefit from the copious amounts of nectar and pollen raspberry flowers produce.
Without honey bees, strawberries would be mis-shapen and smaller in size
More than 80 percent of all cherries depend on honeybees.
Almonds are 100 percent reliant on honeybees.
“One possible cause of decline in native bumble
bees appears to be introduced parasites carried by
bumble bees imported from Europe for greenhouse
pollination. These bees frequently harbor disease
organisms and their escape from greenhouses can lead
to pathogen spillover into native species.”
“Only female bees can sting, and they only do it in self-defense.”
bees polinate over 100 crops including vegetables and fruit bees fly 10 to 15 miles per hour and polinate 50 - 100 flowers on each trip
1. CCD has resulted in a loss of 50 to 90% of colonies in beekeeping operations across the United States.
2. One organism, Israeli acute paralysis virus of bees (IAPV), was strongly correlated with CCD.
Thank you for the generous giveaway and discussion on a very important topic!
What an awesome prize… here are my two facts…
1. A Queen Bee can lay on average 2,000 eggs a day during her busy season.
2. It takes 556 worker bees to gather one pound of honey.
Thanks~
Honey bees can fly up to 14 kilometers from their nest in search of food.
honeybees do not hibernate during cold weather.
I first discovered Burt’s Bees products whilst pregnant with my little girl Loved them ever since
Bee pollination is essential for over 40 ingredients in Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream
Colony Collapse Disorder is the sudden die-off of honeybee colonies that has been occurring across the U.S. for several years now
Here are 2 honeybee facts:
1) The males have but one purpose in life and that is to mate with virgin queens. Once they have done this they die.
2) Honeybees also have a little-understood, built-in clock that appears to be synchronized with the store of nectar in flowers. Hence, honeybees making the rounds of flowers in search of nectar always seem to be at the right place at the right time.
Ok, first of all, WE LOVE BURTS BEES. It’s all I use on the kids.
Here’s my facts.
Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination.
CCD is responsible for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations
Honey bees are the only insects that produce a food consumed by humans.
A colony contains one queen, 500 to 1,000 drones and about 30,000 to 60,000 workers.
Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination.
Pollinators are threatened by development.
Bees help pollinate flowers and other plants which helps the ecosystem widespread. Bees are becoming less and less seen as environmental factors impact them negatively.
Oh, I love love love Burt’s Bees! Thanks for the great giveaway! A few facts:
1. Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive. Due to biodiversity threats such as land development, pollution, and pesticide poisoning, we are losing pollinators around the world at an alarming rate. Greater awareness and global action are required now to change this trend.
2. Almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees for pollination.
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
Bees collect 66 pounds of pollen per year, per hive.
1. Honeybees pollinate one third of the fruit and vegetables we eat.
2. Colony Collapse Disorder is the sudden die-off of honeybee colonies that has been occurring across the U.S. for several years now. The bee disappearance is so widespread that it is blamed for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations
Colony Collapse Disorder (or CCD) is a poorly understood phenomenon in which worker bees from a beehive or Western honey bee colony abruptly disappear.
In the U.S., at least 24 different states as well as portions of Canada have reported at least one case of CCD.
Because of 1) pollution and 2) pesticide poisoning, the country is losing pollinators at an alarming rate
1. Honey bees have 5 eyes.
2. Heney bees fly at about 20 mph.
Almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees for pollination.
More than 80% of all cherries rely on honey bee pollination.
-Honeybees also have a little-understood, built-in clock that appears to be synchronized with the store of nectar in flowers. Hence, honeybees making the rounds of flowers in search of nectar always seem to be at the right place at the right time.
- CCD is responsible for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations.
over 80% of cherries rely on honey bee pollination
almonds are 100% reliant on honey bee pollination. in Feb 1/2 of US honey bee colonies are moved to Central Valley CA area to get the Almond job accomplished.
Excellent topic and what an education. Watched a PBS special with the kids and they are gung ho to protect the bees. The guys who own and station bee colonies around the US were interviewed and strongly believe that pesticides are to blame. This was challenged by pesticide companies who insisted on further research. The grub lawn pesticides cause grubs to stop eating and lose their sense of direction, that is knowing which way is up and closer to grass roots. Thus it seems to explain why bees cannot find their hive and when found within a short distance from the hive, have starved to death.
Beeswax is secreted from glands.
Beeswax is used by the honeybee to build honey comb.
Interesting fact #1
Honeybees are a great scientific mystery because they have remained unchanged for 20 million years even though the world has changed around them
Interesting fact #2
A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour.
Thanks!!
Thank you for having this! I learned some great information!
1. Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination
2. Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive.
1.Almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees for pollination.
2.Honeybees pollinate one third of the fruit and vegetables we eat.
Fact #1. We rely on honey bees for 1/3rd of our food supply.
Fact #2. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
Honey Bees must visit two million flowers, and fly 55,000 miles just to produce one pound of honey!
CCD is responsible for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations.
My third fact is it hurts to be stung! But we really need bees so I forgive them!
1. 30% of the fruit- and vegetable-producing plants we rely on to feed our families need honeybee pollination to thrive.
2. 23% of commercial beekeeping operations in the U.S, suffered from Colony Collapse Disorder in the winter of 2006-2007.
1. The practice of honey collection and beekeeping dates back to the stone-age, as evidenced by cave paintings.
2. All worker bees are female, but they are not able to reproduce.
Thanks for such a great giveaway!
1. 80% of world’s crops require pollination
2. Bees can fly up to 15 miles per hour.
3. Estimates show that 23% of commercial beekeeping operations in the U.S, suffered from Colony Collapse Disorder in the winter of 2006-2007.
Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination.
Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive.
Bees are a critical part of natural environments, and they provide a valuable service to humans when they pollinate our fruit and vegetable plants and wildflowers.
Most bees don’t sting, and few species defend their nest (bumblebees are an exception). Bees generally only use their stingers in defense. No need to fear being stung if you move slowly and non-aggressively. Only females are capable of stinging (males of all bee species lack this capacity).
Bees have a long tongue they use to get the nectar out of the flowers. About 80% of the worlds crops require pollination.
1. The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.
2. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
Honey bees are mysteriously vanishing across the country due to CCD, putting $15 billion worth of fruits, nuts and vegetables at risk.
To help stop CCD, Bee Diverse: Plant lots of different kinds of plants in your yard. Plant diversity ensures that your garden attracts many different varieties of bees and gives them a range of flowering plants to choose from throughout the year. Make sure your yard plants vary in:
Color: Bees have good vision and are attracted to several different colors of flowers.
Shape: Different species of bees are better suited for different shapes of flowers. Give your bees some variety!
Flowering times: Having a sequence of plant species that flower throughout the year helps sustain the food supply and attract different species of bees.
1. The principal form of communication among honey bees is through chemicals called pheromones.
2. Bees are important because they pollinate approximately 130 agricultural crops in the US including fruit, fiber, nut, and vegetable crops. Bee pollination adds approximately 14 billion dollars annually to improved crop yield and quality.
Yay! Burt’s Bees. Here are my facts:
1. As of February 2007, many of the beekeepers reporting heavy losses associated with CCD are large commercial migratory beekeepers, some of who have lost 50-90% of their colonies.
2.The first “report” of CCD was made in mid-November 2006 by a Pennsylvania beekeeper overwintering in Florida.
THANK YOU!
Honeybees are not native to the USA and they pollinate flowers.
The bee disappearance is so widespread that it is blamed for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations. Estimates show that 23% of commercial beekeeping operations in the U.S, suffered from Colony Collapse Disorder in the winter of 2006-2007.
Honeybees pollinate 1/3 of the fruits and veggies that we eat. They are not native to the US.
The honeybee has been adopted by at least sixteen states as the state insect.
Bees use the sun in navigation.
Thanks for helping me to learn something today!! I try to learn something new each day.
I have heard about honey bees dying out on the news and such, but didn’t really know that much about it. Now I am going to try to find more information.
1. CCD is when a bee hive is abandoned by its workers who go off to die together. We don’t know why they leave behind their queen and her young as well as a good supply of food.
2. We don’t know what is causing this, but scientists did a study in 2007. Those 2007 scientists suggest that one cause could be a virus but other studies suggest that stress, pesticides, and climate change are also realistic possibilities.
Honeybees pollinate crops and flowers, and all worker bees are female (figures!).
1. There are over 20,000 species of bees, but only 7 of them are honey bees.
2. Honeybees, signifying immortality and resurrection, were royal emblems of the Napoleonic Empire.
Thanks!
Honey bees fly at about 20 mph
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers
Interesting reading!
1. Scout bees check out new nest sites to ensure it meets specific criteria (I won’t go into detail)
2. Each bee and each cell in hive has a specific purpose/function
Wow that was interesting. I never knew bees do so much. Maybe exterminators should try moving bees to another location instead of just killing them when they infest neighborhoods. We should treat them with a little more respect.
Bee pollination is essential for over 40 ingredients in Haagen-Dazs Ice Cream.
Honeybees pollinate 1/3 of the fruits and veggies that we eat.
Bees pollinate 1/3 of the worlds food crop and, egads, without pollinators I would have no raspberries to harvest—therefore no jam for my morning toast!!!!!
1. The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.
2. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
80% of plants rely on pollination to survive, 1/3 of our food resources rely on honey bee pollination
Honey bees originated in Europe
Bees can fly up to speeds of 15 miles per hour.
What a great contest-love Burt’s Bees Products.
This was fun! I learned quite a bit.
I think I could be a contestant on Jeopardy now.
(1)More than 80% of all cherries rely on honey bee pollination
(2)A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour
Thank you for the great giveaway!
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1. 80% of cherry trees rely on honeybees for pollination.
2. Farmers sometime use a “queen bee scent” to attract bees to their pear trees.
Great contest!
1. The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year.
2.80% of plants rely on pollination to survive, 1/3 of our food resources rely on honey bee pollination
They polinate food crops and they make honey.
1. only female bees have stingerst
2. bees only sting in self defense to protect the hive.
Estimates show that 23% of commercial beekeeping operations in the U.S, suffered from Colony Collapse Disorder in the winter of 2006-2007.
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the causes for Colony Collapse Disorder are unknown
bee populations are down
local honey can help reduce allergies
All I know is my veggie garden didn’t do too well last year because of the bee population going down. I am alot more mindful when I work around bees. Thanx for the contest.
1. The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in US agricultural crops each year.
2. To produce 1 pound of honey, honeybees visit 2 million flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
1. In comparison to other insects, honey bees are not as resilient in fighting off pathogen and pest invasions. This is why they are especially susceptible to infection and disease.
2. Scientists are working hard to come up with anti-viral treatments to help the bees.
1) we rely on honey bees for 1/3 of our food supply 2) honey bees are responsible for $15 billion in agricultural crops
Bees travel at 1o-15 miles per hour (–or 3-4 times as fast as I can walk)!
All worker bees are females (–therefore I must be a worker too).
my two facts are
1) Honey Bees die in the process of making honey, and
2) Some Vegans/animal rights people do not eat honey for that reason
Honeybees pollinate one third of the fruit and vegetables we eat and to produce 1 pound of honey, honeybees visit 2 million flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
The mysterious disappearance of bees is called colony collapse disorder and is a threat to honeybees
The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in US agricultural crops each year
1. Worker bees are all females.
2. Male bees are called drones.
Honeybees are one of the oldest insects known to man.
Honeybees fertilize our crop-bearing plants.
1. “Virgin queens go on mating flights away from their home colony, and mate with multiple drones before returning. The drones die in the act of mating.”
2. only worker bees have stings.
Honey Bees can fly up to 15 mph.
The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in US agricultural crops each year.
Very cool site and interesting topic.
Each honey bee colony has a unique odour for members’ identification.
The male honey bees are called drones, and they do no work at all, have no stinger, all they do is mating.
Bees keep their hives cool by beating their wings.
In the spring when the bees are swarming, they love chimneys to “nest” in. This has happened to me two years in a row, I now cover my chimney every spring to keep them out of my home!
Honey bees are the only insects that produce a food consumed by humans. Honey is produced in one of the busiest yet most efficient factories in the world — a beehive.
Honey bees are social insects with a marked division of labor among the various bees in the hive. A colony contains one queen, 500 to 1,000 drones and about 30,000 to 60,000 workers.
Thanks for the giveaway!
1. The queen controls the sex of her offspring.
2.Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
3.Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using
pheromones (scents).
1: Honey is made up of 35 percent protein and contains half of all the amino acids, and is a highly concentrated source of many essential nutrients. Honey contains large amount of some minerals, B-complex vitamins, and vitamins C, D, and E.
2: Honey has been used as a remedy for everything from arthritis and asthma, to burns, constipation, hay fever to hemorrhoids, migraine, and shingles, from varicose ulcers to battle wounds. One of the powerful benefits of honey was that it could ward off infections and speed healing.
Honey bees are the only extant members of the tribe Apini, all in the genus Apis. Currently, there are only seven recognized species of honey bee with a total of 44 subspecies (Engel, 1999) though historically, anywhere from six to eleven species have been recognized.
Got my facts from Wikipedia, so they must be right!
Love the Burt’s Bee’s lip balm! Would love to win the whole kit!!
1. As of Feb. 08 25% of hives have collapsed.
2. 1/3 of our food rely on 80-100% cross pollination done by bees.
My source is other readings I have done.
1. The queen controls the sex of her offspring.
2.Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
Here are two facts:
1. The almond crop is 100% reliant on honeybee pollination.
2. In order to produce quality fruit, a cherry blossom must get 100 grains of pollen from a honeybee.
When CCD occurs, the queen and young bees are abandoned.
Honeybees can fly as fast as 15 mph
:: Honeybees are the only insect that produce food for humans.
:: Bees communicate with each other by dancing and by using
pheromones (scents).
my facts are
1. more than 80% of all cherries rely on honey bees
2. honey bees can carry as much as 100,000 grains of pollen at once
Great contest! I adore Burt’s Bees!
Here are my two facts:
1)Almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees for pollination. (!)
2)A honeybee can fly approximately 15 miles per hour
Thanks!
1. bees talk to each other by touching another bees antennae.
2. bees carry pollen from one place to another on their back legs.
Fact 1: 1 out of every 3 bites of food the average American takes is directly attributed to honey bee pollination!
Fact 2: The honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year $$$
This is great !! I adore Burt’s Bee products and this is a perfect travel baglet for me. I hope I win. Thanks !
1. The matriarch of the colony is the queen
2. A productive queen will lay up to 3,000 eggs in a single day
1. Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica, and
2. Bees are adapted for feeding on nectar and pollen, the former primarily as an energy source, and the latter primarily for protein and other nutrients.
Learning that 80% of the crops require pollination makes it an alarming fact that we are losing pollinaters because of diverse reasons such as pesticides and overbuilding.
Bees are the only insect giving us the delicious food known to us as honey. It is hard to imagine what the world would be like with the loss of all pollinaters such as bees.
I love Burt’s Bees! Thanks for the contest.
Honey bees must consume about 17-20 pounds of honey to be able to biochemically produce each pound of beeswax.
Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
1. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles.
2. One out of every three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.
Honey Bees die in during the creation of honey
Honey bees are the onlybugs that help produce food for humans
i hope i win
Worldwide evidence suggests pollinator populations are declining due many factors, including habitat destruction. Urban areas can provide important habitat for many bee species.
Honey bee numbers in North America have been declining over the past 10 years due to parasitic tracheal and Varroa mites; so making space for native bees guards against dependence on a single species. Most native bees are immune from mite attack.
1)It requires about 556 worker bees to gather a full pound of honey. 2)A two-day-old larva is selected by the workers to be reared as the queen. ty 4 the great contest!:)
honeybees are responsible for 1/3 of the food we eatand almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees
1. Pear blossoms produce a diluted nectar, so some farmers will use a queen bee scent to attract bees to pear trees.
2. Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination
1.) More than 80% of all cherries rely on honey bee pollination. A cherry blossom must get 100 grains of pollen from a honey bee visitor.
2.) Without honey bees, many of the seeds on the strawberry surface would not be pollinated leading to smaller mishapen fruit.
Thanks for a great opportunity to win!
1. more than 25% of the population of western honey bees has disappleared in the last few years.
2. The honey bee is responsible for 15 billion dollars in US agricultural products each year.
Our freind is a bee keeper did you know your local honey a TBSP a day in water fights allergies! also honey has been know to ease artiritis! Im a Honey Lover!!
Almost 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination.
Almond trees are 100% pollinated by bees. There would be no almonds without bees.
1) Honey bees are social and live in hives with 20,000-80,000 other honey bees.
2) Honey bees do not hibernate in the cold months. They feed on stored food supplies and huddle tightly together to keep warm.
One out of 3 bites of food the average American eats is directly attributed to the honey bee pollination.
Honey bee is responsible for $15 billion in US agricultural crops each year.
1. The honey bees in my yard are plentiful thankfully and totally in love with my poppies and lavender.
2. Having many diverse plantings with natives and ornamentals will attract more honey bees.
I love bees and Burt’s Bees - thank you so much!
Honey bees are almost the only bees with hairy compound eyes, and honey is 80% sugar and 20 % water
1. Pollinators, which include honey bees, are essential to the fibers we use, the medicines that keep us healthy, and more than half of the world’s diet of fats and oils.
2. Insect pollinators, including honey bees, pollinate products amounting to $20 billion annually in the U.S. alone.
Thank you so much for offering this great giveaway!
1. A single beehive usually houses 40-45,000 bees.
2. A queen bee lives for about 2 years. During that time she lays 3,000 eggs a day!!!
I love Burt’s Bees! Thanks for the contest.
1. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles.
2. One out of every three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination
1) Bees can carry 100,000 grains of pollen at one time
2) Almonds trees are 100% dependent on bees for pollination
Colony Collapse Disorder is the sudden die-off of honeybee colonies that has been occurring across the U.S. for several years now.
The bee disappearance is so widespread that it is blamed for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations
it is so sad that the population of honey bees is disappearing and then no more cherries cause 80% of cherries come about because of bees.
1)Pollinators are essential to life.
Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination. Birds, bees, butterflies, but also beetles, mosquitoes, and even bats transfer pollen between seed plants. This function is vital for plant reproduction.
2)Pollinators need protection.
Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive. Due to biodiversity threats such as land development, pollution, and pesticide poisoning, we are losing pollinators around the world at an alarming rate. Greater awareness and global action are required now to change this trend.
1. Honey Bees are responsible for pollinating 1/3 of all of the food we eat.
2. Almonds are 100% reliant on Honey Bees for pollination!
1) Honey is the complex substance made when the nectar and sweet deposits from plants and trees are gathered, modified and stored in the honeycomb by honey bees.
2) Honey bees are known to communicate through many different chemicals and odors, as is common in insects, but also using specific behaviors that convey information about the quality and type of resources in the environment, and where these resources are located.
1. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles.
2. Almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees for pollination.
Fact one: Honey bees “dance”. They perform a “waggle” and tell the other honeybees where the food is.
Fact two: The inside of a flower acts as a “landing zone” for a honeybee. If you turn a UV light on the flower, you will see a ring around the middle of the flower; that is what the honeybee sees in order to find the pollen/nectar inside.
Thanks for the giveaway!
Love my Burts Bees
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two millions flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
Colony Collapse Disorder is the sudden die-off of honeybee colonies that has been occurring across the U.S. for several years now.
The bee disappearance is so widespread that it is blamed for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations
Thanks for the giveaway!
Great contest. I hope I win!!
Here are two facts:
1. The almond crop is 100% reliant on honeybee pollination.
2. In order to produce quality fruit, a cherry blossom must get 100 grains of pollen from a honeybee.
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1. There are over 20,000 species of bees.
2. A hive colony has a queen, 500 to 1,000 drones and 30,000 to 60,000 worker bees.
i learned that 1 of every 3 spoonfuls of food we eat are from the result of pollination and that we should teach our children to say “thanks bugs”
Here’s my two facts:
1. Honeybees account for 80% of all insect pollination. Bees collect 66 pounds of pollen per year, per hive. Wow!
2. Honeybees are not native to the USA. They are European in origin, and were brought to North America by the early settlers.
Bees can fly 22 miles per hour
A Queen bee can lay 1,000-3,000 eggs per day.
1) 80% of the world’s crops require pollinaton.
2) Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive.
Thanks so much for the contest.
Poor Bees!!
1. Cell phones have been linked to bee decline. 2. Rare virus originating in Israel is likely responsible for the disappearance of honey bees.
Bees are found on every continent except Antarctica
Honeybees fertilize our crop-bearing plants
Only girl bees sting and honeybees can carry as many as 100,00 grains of pollen!
1. Royal Jelly is the powerful, milky substance that turns an ordinary bee into a Queen Bee. It is made of pollen which is chewed up and mixed with a chemical secreted from a gland in the nursing bee’s heads. This “milk” or “pollen mush” is fed to all the larvae for the first two days of their lives.
2. To make a pound of honey, worker bees must forage nectar from millions of flowers.
Wow! I learned so much about bees today! It was very interesting and really opened my eyes to how important bees are to us and the significant impact they have on so much of our lives!
1) One out of every 3 bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.
2) More than 25 percent of the Western honey bee population has disappeared over the last several winters, posing a risk to our natural food supply.
I learned so much more and also enjoyed learning bees dance when they return to their hives to give sample of their honey to the other bees.
I think this is a fantastic giveaway because you provided us with a chance to learn something that we all should be aware of and that is IF BEES ARE IN DANGER, THEN WE ARE IN DANGER, pass it along!
The pollen gathering worker bees are female.
The drones, male bees, work inside the hive and perform housekeeping duties, such as clearing the hive, preparing the wax cells, feeding the queen bee and keeping the hive cooler by flapping their wings. When a hive becomes distressed by lack of food the male bees are pushed out of the hive to die.
Here is my two facts:
From the statement below, we see no known causes for CCD.
While the causes for Colony Collapse Disorder are unknown, we do know that forces like habitat destruction, misuse of pesticides, invasive species and global warming create risks to honeybees.
Almonds are 100% reliant on honey bees for pollination
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles.
One out of every three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollinatio
Here are my bee facts!
1. Three types of individuals, or castes, can at one time or another be found in a honeybee colony, including the queen (a fertile female), workers (infertile female) and drones (male).
2. When the bee stings, the stinger, poison sac and several others parts of the bee’s anatomy are torn from the bee’s body.
One of every 3 bites of food a person takes is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.
More than 25 percent of the bee population has decreased in the last few winters, posing a great risk to our natural food supply.
1)bees cannot see red;
2)bees cannot fly in rain.
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There are only 7 recognized species of honeybees (although there are sub-species.)
Some researchers have attributed the syndrome (CCD) to the practice of feeding high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) to supplement winter stores.
Honey bees help pollinate products that amount to 20 billion annually in the U.S.
A Queen bee can lay on average 2,000 eggs a day during busy season.
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1. Honeybees have hair on their eyes.
2. The most numerous domestic animal is the honeybee, with an estimated 3,172,864,740,000 (over 3 trillion) honeybees kept by humans.
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Bees are amazing and we rely on them to survive. Bees are responsible for 1/3 of the earths food supply.Pollenate,Pollenate and Pollenate!!
Bees dance ,if they find a good pollen source they go back to the hive and dance.The dance show the other bees the distance,direction,quantity and quality of the pollen. The larger and richer the food source the more vigorous the dance.
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1. Honeybees account for 80% of all insect pollination. Bees collect 66 pounds of pollen per year, per hive.
2. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles. That’s amazing/
There are five species of honeybees known.
The weather often affects the temper of bees, and on windy, cloudy days, when they are unable to search for nectar, pollen, etc, they are somewhat angry or frustrated, and they may “take it out” on some innocent passerby.
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1. The honeybee is a social insect living in large colonies of from 20,000 to 80,000 individuals.
2.There are five species of honeybees known: Apis mellifera (common honeybee); Apis dorsata (giant honeybee); Apis laboriosa (giant honeybee); Apis cerana (Indian honeybee) and Apis florea (dwarf honeybee).
This is an issue that really concerns me. I watched a PBS show last year on it and had trouble sleeping that night because of bad dreams related to colony collapse disorder. Here are my facts:
1. The following foods depend on pollinators: apples, bananas, pumpkins, blueberries, chocolate, melons, peaches, vanilla, and almonds.
2. Insect pollinators, including honey bees, pollinate products amounting to $20 billion annually in the U.S. alone.
On average, a colony will produce about 80 pounds of surplus honey each year.
Honey is a source of carbohydrates — mainly fructose (about 38.5 percent) and glucose (about 31.0 percent). The remaining carbohydrates include maltose, sucrose and other complex carbohydrates. On average, honey is 17.1 percent water.
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1 ) Honeybees are the only insect that provides food for humans.
2 ) Nearly 80% of the earth’s crop plants require pollination.
Hi, my 2 facts about bees are 1. Honeybees polinate 1/3 of the fruits and veggies that we eat. 2. CCD is the mysterious disappearance of honeybee colonies. Thanks for the opportunity to win a great prize.
1. CCD is responsible for losses of up to 70% of the managed bee colonies in U.S. beekeeping operations.
2. 30% of the fruit- and vegetable-producing plants we rely on to feed our families need honeybee pollination to thrive.
Here are my 2 facts:
Honey bees fly at 15 miles per hour.
The queen may mate with up to 17 drones over a 1-2 day period of mating flights.
Texas produces about 5 percent of U.S. honey. About 200,000 honey bee colonies in Texas produce honey and other products and services valued at $9 million to $11 million each year.
Apis mellifera - scientific name (genus and species) of the honeybee; always italicized, but I cannot show italics for this posting.
Thanks for such a useful giveaway!
Bees fly approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour and visit about 50-100 flowers in each pollination trip.
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles.
Bees fly approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour and visit about 50-100 flowers in each pollination trip.
This is a great giveaway and I really hope I win. Thanks.
2 facts :
Beeswax is : A natural wax made by bees in the cell walls of honeycombs, this substance is a natural emulsifier used in cosmetics
Clove Oil is : Eugenia caryophyllus. Both substances are extracted from the buds of an aromatic tropical evergreen and have warming, antiseptic, disinfectant and a pain relief properties. Both lend a sweet, spicy note to skin care formulati
Might be same as someone else’s but here are my two facts found while researching;
1. Honeybees account for 80% of all insect pollination. Bees collect 66 pounds of pollen per year, per hive.
2. To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,ooo miles.
My BEE facts:
1. Bees communicate with each other about food sources using dances.
2. Bees use the sun in navigation.
My personal BEE fact: Haagen Daz needs bees to make their wonderful ice cream. I need Haagen Daz to make a wonderful life!
Ok. I have lots of honeybee facts.
1. They are adorable.
2. They are decorating my nursery.
3. They are easy to draw.
4. A real fact. Bees have been producing honey for at least 150 million years. So they have had time to perfect their art. lol
5. The honeybee is not born knowing how to make honey; the younger bees are taught by the more experienced ones. Awww modeling leads to handover. This is why they’re cute.