Cat Bees

May 20 was World Bee Day!

Folks, we'll really be in the soup if there are no bees; their pollinating efforts create food for so many critters, including humans.

No bees = no food.

Our governments need to focus on saving our planet and ALL of its inhabitants, as should every person who lives here.

The Bee Conservancy: Learn more: 10 Ways to Save The Bees:

1. Support and Preserve Bee Habitats

2. Go Chemical-Free for Bees

3. Choose Bee-Friendly Plants

4. Go Underground for Bees

5. Trees for Bees

6. Let Stems Bee

7. Always Bee Learning (and Sharing!)

8. Bee a Volunteer

9. Engage in Community Science

10. Bee the Change: Take Action

Please be nice to the bees!

However, bees are insects, and to me, they don't really make great subjects for artification, so here's a sleepy Manny, with Lunapic's Color Pencil Sketch Effect, then the Mono filter in iPhoto.

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle.

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Henry Update:

Henry seems to be sailing along.

If not with his past exuberance, then with at least an interest in watching out the windows, and hanging with his humans.

The H Man now walks across our bodies, and has nestled atop me like a mountaineer scaling great heights, with at least one paw squashing some unmentionable part of me.

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Let's Hop!

Bzzzzz...

The United Nations has designated May 20 as World Bee Day.

Read more here.

Bumblebee visiting our garden.

🐝 Be kind to bees! 🐝

🐝 Bzzzz ❤️

20 May is World Bee Day, designated by The United Nations 

"Bees and other pollinators, such as butterflies, bats and hummingbirds, are increasingly under threat from human activities.

Pollination is, however, a fundamental process for the survival of our ecosystems. Nearly 90% of the world’s wild flowering plant species depend, entirely, or at least in part, on animal pollination, along with more than 75% of the world’s food crops and 35% of global agricultural land. Not only do pollinators contribute directly to food security, but they are key to conserving biodiversity." - World Bee Day; United Nations

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World Bee Day🐝

🌼🐝🐝 20 May is World Bee Day!🐝🐝🌼

Click on the image above to enjoy a jigsaw puzzle
A bee foraging on a milkweed flower in our yard.
I brightened the colors a bit in iPhoto.

Let's Hop!

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World Bee Day

 May 20 is World Bee Day!

The observance of World Bee Day worldwide aims to: 

• Draw the attention of the world’s public and political decision-makers to the importance of protecting bees.
• Remind us that we depend on bees and other pollinators.
• Protect bees and other pollinators, which would significantly contribute to solving problems related to the global food supply and eliminate hunger in developing countries. 
• Halt the further loss of biodiversity and degradation of ecosystems, and thereby contribute to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

A bee visiting milkweed blossoms in our yard.

Our native bee house is busy.

Bats are also great pollinators; look at those wings.

Video taken in our yard, at dusk.

There are more than 450 kinds of bees in Michigan, 3,600 types of bees in the USA, and 20,000 bee species around the world.

Be nice to bees, birds, butterflies, and bats.