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.
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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
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