We’re celebrating the amazingness of bees with this beautiful golden bee thought to date to the Hellenistic period of Greece. At only 1.5 cm in length, it’s about the size of a bee as well!
🏛 Yale University Art Gallery
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It's #WorldBeeDay! 🐝
We have over 270 species of bee in the UK and from pollinating plants to shaping habitats, our stripy friends do some irreplaceable jobs.
Want to give bees a boost?
Let your lawn go a little wild, and choose wildlife-friendly flowers & climbers. 🌼
Today, over 20,000 bee species are buzzing for #WorldBeeDay🐝
Bees and other pollinators keep 80% of crops & wild plants alive.
Yet, 1 in 10 bee, hoverfly, and butterfly species are now at risk of extinction in the EU.
The New Deal for Pollinators aims to reverse this before 2030, by:
🌿Mitigating the impacts of pollution, including pesticides
🌼Restoring degraded ecosystems
🛡️Protecting habitats
🌾Taking action to protect the most threatened species
Over 75% of the world’s food crops need pollinators.
Yet, bee populations have dropped globally over recent decades due to:
🔸 habitat loss
🔸 climate change
🔸 excessive use of pesticides
Our fertiliser plan promotes healthier ecosystems, which are essential for bees’ survival.
On this #WorldBeeDay, we urge governments, organisations and citizens to help save these precious creatures.
We need to keep our bees busy and well!
Once did I see
A sounding bee,
Amongst her sweetned swarme…
—“Madrigall: Of a Bee”, by Simion Grahame (c.1570–1614)
published in JACOBEAN PARNASSUS: Scottish Poetry from the Reign of James I (ASL, 2022)
A poem for World Bee Day 🐝 – today, 20 May
https://asls.org.uk/publications/books/volumes/jacobean-parnassus/
#Scottish #literature #poem #poetry #EarlyModern #16thcentury #17thcentury #Jacobean #bees #WorldBeeDay
Seillean
dian, dùrachdach
a’ siubhal nam blàth…
—Ruaraidh MacThòmais, “A’ Siubhal nam Blàth”
from Sùil air fàire: dain ùra le Ruaraidh MacThòmais / Surveying the horizon: recent poems by Derick Thomson (Acair, 2007)
A Gaelic poem for World Bee Day 🐝
#Scottish #literature #Gaidhlig #Gaelic #poem #poetry #20thcentury #bees #WorldBeeDay
Here are my bees,
brazen, blurs on paper,
besotted; buzzwords, dancing
their flawless, airy maps…
—Carol Ann Duffy, “Bees”
published in THE BEES (Picador, 2017)
A poem for World Bee Day 🐝
https://www.panmacmillan.com/authors/carol-ann-duffy/the-bees/9781509852925
May 20 is World Bee Day. There are ~20,000 different bee species in the world. Here in Ontario we have at least 400 native bees (none of which are the honeybees, which are from Europe). Bees are key to pollination. According to the UN nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops. Further, worldwide ~35% of 🧵
