Bees love us. They pollinate our fields, orchards and gardens. They bring sweetness to our lives. Beesponsible is the way we love them back.
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#FunFactFriday: You can find us on Instagram and Facebook too! 🙃🐝
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Tell the @EPA to protect pollinators and ban #sulfoxaflor — a bee-toxic pesticide they reapproved in 2019 for use on millions of acres of pollinator-attracting crops.☠️🐝 #StopSulfoxaflor #PollinatorsOverPesticides
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The courts and EPA agree - #sulfoxaflor is a #pollinator poison. Despite admitting the #pesticide is “very highly toxic” to #bees, #EPA reapproved it anyway. Help us flood EPA with comments demanding a ban. cfs.center/savebees2023 #StopSulfoxaflor
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#DidYouKnow: Drone (male) honeybees meet their fate in one of two ways...
1️⃣ The few that successfully mate with a queen will die immediately after this act. 😮
2️⃣ The rest will get kicked out of the hive by the female worker bees before winter. 👋
That feeling when you realize you get an extra hour of sleep tonight... 🙌🕑🙃 #FallBack
Bee-leave it or not, 70% of native bee species nest in the ground. 😮 A layer of fallen leaves provides protection and insulation to help keep them cozy and safe until spring! 🍂🐝 #LeaveTheLeaves
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Amuck! Amuck amuck amuck!
Don't be fooled by flies wearing bee costumes and running, er, flying amuck. These mimics are just trying to make predators think they're armed with a stinger. 🪰👻
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💥 Pop Quiz 💥
Worker bees mix pollen with nectar and saliva to make the main source of protein for adult honeybees and the developing larvae. 🐝🐝🐝 What's this nutritious concoction called?
A. Bee's brew
B. Bee broth
C. Pollinator potion
D. Bee bread
E. Bee-lixir
🤔 Word Scramble Wednesday 🤔
Bees that specialize in collecting pollen from one genus or species of flowering plants are called ________.
C O G T L C I O E I L
Answer: OLIGOLECTIC 😮
Squash bees, for example, are oligolectic. They collect pollen only from plants in the Cucurbita genus.
On that note… we hope you're having a very gourd #NationalPumpkinDay! 🎃
"So delicious and distinctive. I highly recommend for honey lovers who realize they are not all the same." ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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"Teach me to love bees! I'm scared of them." 😨🐝
We love a good opportunity to enlighten people about our fuzzy, buzzy friends — but we're curious how YOU would respond to this comment? Let's hear it! 💬
"For bumblebees who emerge from winter hibernation before the arrival of spring flowers, survival is not likely. As a result, smaller colonies will appear the following year." 📉🐝🚨 #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Phenology
Via @EarthDotCom — earth.com/news/bumblebees-ar….
🎵 They're creepy and they're kooky, mysterious and spooky... 🎵
Expand this thread to learn more about 5⃣ #NativePlants that aren't actually spooky at all (except for their names). They're uniquely beautiful and feed the #pollinators too! 👇🌼🐝
4⃣ Boneset
✔️ Blooms late summer to early fall
✔️ Grows best in moist soil
✔️ Attracts a wide range of insects
