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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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.
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.
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