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National Honeybee Day, 8/17/13

It's National Honeybee Day! Celebrate it by planting a flower or other plant that will provide nectar for your local bees.

In honor of National Honeybee Day, here are a few of my favorite photos of bees! Click along the attached photos to see: Honeybee on a passionflower; Honeybee on a lavender flower; Honeybee on flower; Honeybee on poppy flower; Queen honeybee and worker bees in the hive; Swarm of honeybees in a tree.

Even if you're not able to have a hive, you can help out by planting flowers, trees, and bushes that provide nectar for bees and other pollinators. Click here to see a good wiki article on Northern American sources for honeybee nectar.

Click here to see this post on my blog. And click here to see my nature photos and artwork on my website.

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