Lesley Smitheringale Fine Art

April 6th, 2008

Help the Honey Bees!

A mysterious illness is killing tens of thousands of honeybee colonies across America, threatening honey production, the livelihood of beekeepers and possibly crops that need bees for pollination. The cause of these losses is an alarming phenomenon called Colony Collapse Disorder or “CCD”. When a hive experiences CCD, the honey bees mysteriously leave their hive and die.

You can download the gorgeous screensaver and/or wallpaper plus make and send a bee-mail

Bee Facts: Bees fly approximately 10 to 15 miles per hour and visit about 50-100 flowers in each pollination trip.To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit two million flowers and fly 55,000 miles. When a honey bee returns to the hive after finding a good pollen source, it gives out samples of the flower’s nectar to its hive mates and performs a dance that details the distance, direction, quality and quantity of the food supply. The richer the food source, the longer and more vigorous the dance.

This website is beautiful and well worth a visit - please help in any way you can.

Posted in Wildlife
By Lesley Smitheringale