Bee Happy!
Did you know that honey bees — wild and domestic — perform about 80 percent of all pollination worldwide. A single bee colony can pollinate 300 million flowers each day. Grains are primarily pollinated by the wind, but fruits, nuts and vegetables are pollinated by bees. Seventy out of the top 100 human food crops — which supply about 90 percent of the world’s nutrition — are pollinated by bees.
According to Greenpeace USA, bees are dying from a variety of factors—pesticides, drought, habitat destruction, nutrition deficit, air pollution, global warming and more. Many of these causes are interrelated. The bottom line is that we know humans are largely responsible for the two most prominent causes: pesticides and habitat loss.
So what can we do? Greenpeace says these three things can give us a strong start:
- Ban the seven most dangerous pesticides.
- Protect pollinator health by preserving wild habitat.
- Restore ecological agriculture.
Just a few thoughts buzzing through my head about saving the bees as I share this recent watercolor painting.
Bee Happy and have a great day!
Cheers & Hugs,
Jodi
Very nice painting and post Jodi. I’ll Bee have here in Tampa this summer where Bees can be plentiul and avoid using pesticides so thy he Bees can do their wonderful things.
Hope you have s wonderful day!
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yes – you BEEhave! 🙂
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I have twitted this too.
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your bee is very. happy!
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🙂
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Yes….We must save the bees.
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right?!
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Thank you for the reminder about the decline of our precious bees, Jodi! It should be a wake-up for action for it is too late.
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indeed.
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I meant to say ‘before it is too late’.
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What a great painting, Jodi … you captured our friend the bee on her honeycomb so beautifully! Anita 🙂
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Great painting! An important post as well! I was. A reader suggested that I do a post about bees. She loves to have “chats” with them, says she always wanted to pet them when she was a child. 🙂
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how sweet that she would like to pet one 🙂
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I know , I was scared of them when a child. Still am, because I am allergic to them but I do know how important they are.
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We need the bees ! This is a great painting to support the little needed creatures!
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we sure do!
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Bee-hold this bee-utiful watercolor! I LOVE this and hope that you will make it available for purchase! This is such an important environmental issue bee-cause our human actions and inactions the world over are causing decimation of the entire bee population. One of the things that arrives daily into my inbox is “What I Learned About Today” from ThoughtCo. and your post ties in perfectly with this mornings from them : 15 Fascinating Facts About Honey Bees. I was gifted with a now faded and often worn T-shirt because of my love of the little honey bee. Imprinted on the front are these words that are a beautiful accompaniment to your painting : “Advice from a Honey Bee : Create a buzz – Sip life’s sweet moments – Mind your own beeswax – Work together – Always find you way home – Stick close to your honey – Bee Yourself”. I had tried to find the author as it did not appear on the shirt, but was unable so must attribute it to unknown. I am so lucky to have Bee-Friended you! Thank-YOU!
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this is scary Jodi, thanks for the info and the adorable bee painting!
BEE sweet!
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thanks Jenna! Beee Happy! 🙂
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Adorable Painting !
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Beederful!!!
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Bee-U-tiFUL!! LOVE how you painted your bee and honeycombs! 🌼🌸🐝
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Thanks Bee-U-tiful friend!! 🙂 ❤
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“Namaste, My Jodi! It’s me, Benjamin! I love the bee and I love you! I can spell and print my name. I am going to name the bee ‘B-en-ja-min’, isn’t that funny? Bees make honey for us, right? Gem calls me honey lotsa times. I have a neckbuster hug and the biggest kiss ever for you. Bye! Oh, and thank you!”
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P.S. Sent under anonymous because he wants it to be a surprise!
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🙂 ❤
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Benjamin! You sure surprised me!! 🙂 And I am so proud you have learned to spell and print your name! Wow!
Yes – bees do make honey. Honey is so yummy and sweet? Do you like? I can my granddaughters “honey” sometimes too. It is because we think you are all so SWEET! Thank you so much for the neckbuster hug and biggest kiss ever! I send the same back to one of my favorite guys! Love ya “honey!” 🙂 ❤
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Wonderful art and thanks for sharing he information. I’m so happy to see many bees in my garden.
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Oh Yay! So glad you have lots of honey bees!!!
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I love your bee painting! And I agree that we need to help save our honey bees. They are so useful to the environment and (unlike yellow jackets, I don’t like them at all) they are quite harmless. Thanks for the tips!
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Thanks Ann! ❤
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Wonderful post and painting. It’s all interconnected, (K)
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It really is 🙂
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Sorry to bother you again. I was truly hoping that I would find an answer to the question I posed in my first comment about the availability of prints of this watercolor. My propensity for loquacity at times, most times, causes many to become lost in the ramblings of my mind. Considering today’s fantabulous news on your post, I realize that I had better get a “Jodi” before they are gone! Thank-you!
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LOL! My art is available online by visiting mx2d.com. Thanks for your interest!!!!
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That site will supply a link to our ETSY shop. 🙂
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Jodi: I was wondering if I could use this bee picture in a blog post I am writing. It is about how all human beings are connected to one another, much like the way species are connected to one another in an ecosystem. I use bees as an illustration. I would give you credit for this painting, of course, and direct people to your blog. Feel free to ignore this, if this is not convenient for you.
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OF COURSE you may Shelly! It would be an honor!
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Ellen suggested that I seek out this post, and I am ever so glad I did! I love what I see, and am now following your blog. Thank you for helping make people aware of the importance of protecting our bee population!
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Oh that sweet Ellen! ❤ Hi Jill! Thanks for visiting!
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‘Twas my pleasure! I write politics, and blogs like yours are always a much-needed, welcome reprieve. I have also, without asking permission as I normally would, included a link to your Bee post on my weekly “good people” feature this morning. Hope you don’t mind!
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Of course I do not mind! Looking forward to “getting to know you” Jill!
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I thought I might explain a comment left elsewhere this morning for you! Every morning when Benjamin arrives, he opens the door and calls : “Namaste Gem, it’s me Ben-ja-min!” He has pronounced each syllable of his name ever since he has known his own name. Until this morning, when he opened the door and called : “Namaste Gem, it’s me B-enjamin!” I said that I was expecting Ben-ja-min, who are you? He laughed and said : “I’m B-enjamin now cause I’m a honey, get it, a honey bee?” He told me that : “I fought it up myself, I used my brain.” I would say that “My Jodi” put that buzz in his brain with a certain watercolor! He is a honey indeed! Thank-you!
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OMG!!!! ☺️💕💕. Just when I think you two couldn’t be any sweeter… you bless me again! I do love you two! 😉. Someday I hope we can meet up and I can give you both neckbuster hugs for real!!! 🥰😇
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Bees are so very important! I love seeing them in my garden and say thank you in little whispers! Love your painting!😉💕
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Painting So cute, love the thought. Keep us all thinking & aware. Amazing little guys. Haven’t seen many this year. We have many bees or their cousins, (wasps, yellow jackets, & those big black ones with armour). but very few of this kind. Just wish I wasn’t alergic.
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Scary when you are allergic!!
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