Yes ladies, it’s time for another fabulous giveaway! June 22 – 28 is National Pollinator Week, and Burt’s Bees wants to give these little pollinators their moment in the spotlight for all the work they do in providing us with healthy products that keep us looking BEE-autiful. We’re giving away FREE Burt’s Bees Radiance Kits to five of our lucky readers!
Here’s what you need to do to win this time:
- Head over to Burt’s Bees, The Pollinator Partnership or the Haagen-Dazs Honeybee program and fetch a BEE fact about pollinators.
- Leave your BEE fact in a comment on this post (using a valid email that you check often) between now and Monday, June 30th.
- Check back on Tuesday, July 1 when I will announce the 5 lucky winners!
Good luck, ladies! (Please note that this contest is open only to US residents.)
Heres a fact I found from both Burt’s Bees and helpthehoneybees.com (linked from Haagen-Dazs): “One out of every three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.”
I always thought of bees as scary, violent insects — who knew they are such an integral part of our daily diet ^_^
My BEE Fact (found on Haagen-Daz’s website):
Honey bees are responsible for the pollination of over 100 crops in the U.S. and provide 80% of America’s pollination services!
While buzzing around the Haagan-Daz website, I came across this bee fact:
To produce one pond of honey, honey bees must must visit tow miilion flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
Honey bees are responsible for $15 billion in U.S. agricultural crops each year!
I never thought about the pollination of foods. I’m a big fruit addict and I wouldn’t be able to enjoy them without honeybees!
One out of every three bites of food the Average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination!
One out of every three bites of food the Average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination!
(i resubmitted because the email was wrong…oops)
Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive. Due to biodiversity threats such as land development, pollution, and pesticide poisoning, we are losing pollinators around the world at an alarming rate.
(Found from the pollinator!)
Nearly 80% of our world’s crop plants require pollination. Birds, bees, butterflies, but also beetles, mosquitoes, and even bats transfer pollen between seed plants. This function is vital for plant reproduction.
I love Burt’s Bees and I hope to get this giveaway!
- Aside from CCD, habitat destruction, misuse of pesticides, invasive species and global warming also contribute to harming the bees.
Thanks!
According to the Haagen-Dazs website, “Almonds are 100 percent reliant on honey bees for pollination.” I thought this was very interesting, because I didn’t realize almonds had to be pollinated. I also didn’t realize the honey bee population was in danger. That is scary since we rely so much on the honey bees!
Thank you so much for offering this giveaway!
Turns out that 70 percent of managed bee colonies have had losses due to ccd!
Honeybees “dance” to alert other bees of nectar sources.
A hive of honeybees can produce 50 pounds of honey.
I learned that Pollination is vital to our survival and the existence of nearly all ecosystems on earth. 80% of the world’s crop plants depend on pollination.
Bee hives are trucked around the country so that the bees can polinate crop after crop. They may have traveled 1000 miles but manage to find their way back to their particular hive in the new location.
One out of every three bites of food an average American eats is directly attributed to honey bee pollination.
Almonds are 100% pollinated by bees… they bring them in to pollinate the trees ~~ without bees there would be no almonds.
Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive. Due to biodiversity threats such as land development, pollution, and pesticide poisoning, we are losing pollinators around the world at an alarming rate
humans and eco-systems need pollinators to survive.
According to pollinator.org:
Worldwide, approximately 1,000 plants grown for food, beverages, fibers, spices and medicines need to be pollinated by animals in order to produce the resources on which we depend.
http://www.pollinator.org/Resources/Facts.Food%20Industry.pdf
Without pollinators, humans and ecosystems cannot survive.
I love all Burt’s Bee’s products. Especially the baby lotion for my little one’s dry, dry skin!
Would love this!
Haagen-Dazs has created a new flavor, vanilla honey bee and all the proceeds will go to research to save the honeybee populations.
It is estimated that 23 percent of managed bee colonies were affected by Colony Collapse Disorder in the winter of 06-07.-Burt’s Bees website
From the helpthehoneybees site (linked from Haagen Daz):
To produce one pound of honey, honey bees must visit 2 million flowers and fly 55,000 miles.
That’s a lot of work, isn’t it? I do love Burt’s Bees products. This radiance kit looks great. Thanks.
The common honeybee is found worldwide and consists of a number of races or subspecies. There are four subspecies of the common honeybee occurring in Europe, three oriental subspecies and 12 African subspecies.
30% of the fruit- and vegetable-producing plants we rely on to feed our families need honeybee pollination to thrive.
Almonds are 100 per cent reliant on honeybees for pollination. (Haagen-Dazs ice cream uses over one million lbs of almonds every year)
The Pollinator Partnership is proud to announce that June 22-28, 2008 will celebrate the 2nd Annual National Pollinator Week.
Bees make about 10 flights each day to gather water, bee glue, nectar, and pollen. They visit 50 to 100 flowers a flight and each flight lasts about one hour. Even with all this work, the average worker bee only make 1/12 of a teaspoon of honey in their lifetime!!!
I couldn’t believe this information!
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