🪷 Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝 To prevent #Chronos / #Saturn from eating her baby, #Rhea hid little #Zeus in a cave where he was kept alive by bees who fed him honey nectar. One of #Jupiter / Zeus's many names was #Melissaios which means "Bee Boy." #NationalHoneyBeeDay 🐝🪷

🌍🐝 Happy World Honey Bee Day! 🍯✨ Let’s celebrate these amazing little pollinators who sweeten our lives & sustain our ecosystems. 🐝💛 Today, honor our favorite local honey and practicing mindfulness in nature. Take a moment to appreciate the buzz around us! 🥳 #WorldHoneyBeeDay #SaveTheBees

'...there suck we, alchemical, nectar-slurred, pollen-furred, the world's mantra us, our blurry sound along the thousand scented miles to the hive...' ✍️Carol Ann Duffy's 'Hive' Happy #Worldhoneybeeday 💜🐝 📸me #nature #photography #blueskyartshow #bees #biodiversity #poetry #bookchatweekly

🪷 #MadHoney ( #DeliBal in Turkish) from rhododendron blossoms in Bithynia where #Antinous was born has a powerful neurotoxin. In ancient times it was mixed with wine to incapacitate invading troops. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-birthplace-of-antinous-is-home-of.html #WorldHoneyBeeDay #honey #bees #bee #honeybeeday 🪷

Happy World Honey Bee Day! 🐝
These tiny superstars pollinate a third of our food and give us that golden honey we love.
Did you know out of 20,000 bee species, only seven actually make honey?
Give a shoutout to your favourite buzzy worker below! 🍯💛
#WorldHoneyBeeDay #BuzzWorthyFacts #BeeKind #NatureHeroes

🪷 Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay: #Antinous as divine beekeeper #Aristaeus, who plunged into a sacred river to work a miracle to #SaveTheBees. #Antinoos / #Aristée Musée Louvre. We need a beekeeping miracle now as bees vanish worldwide. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2025/05/as-bees-mysteriously-disappear-we.html #HoneyBeeDay 🪷

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:
Perfume Bottle, c.1893
Designed by Paulding Farnham (USA, 1859-1927) for Tiffany & Co.
Gold, agate, yellow sapphires, demantoid garnets, red garnets, amethyst
3 5/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in., 212.9 Grams (9.2 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm, 6.845 Troy Ounces)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 65.143:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/5594
#ArtNouveau

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:
#Beehive with Blackberry Branches (Cheese Stand)
Minton & Co., design registered 1862
glazed earthenware (majolica)
(Photographed at the Majolica Mania exhibition the Walters Art Museum in 2022.)

Happy #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝!
#DYK only 8 of the world’s ~20,000 species of bees are honeybees (Apis genus)?
Victoria Fuller (American, b. 1953)
Spelling #Bee , 2014
craft fur, epoxy clay, acrylic, resin, mylar, chloroplast
from the Project: Nature exhbition at Susquehanna Art Museum
#WomenArtists