{"id":3239,"date":"2018-08-15T10:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dinnertime.com\/content\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2018-08-15T10:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T14:02:22","slug":"honey-bee-sweet-and-help-save-the-honey-bees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp2.dinnertime.com\/content\/2018\/08\/15\/honey-bee-sweet-and-help-save-the-honey-bees\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey! Bee Sweet and Help Save the Honey Bees."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Do you love melons, almonds, cherries and tomatoes? Me too! We need bees to pollinate these fruits and vegetables (and many more<\/a>), but we are losing honey bee colonies at an alarming rate. August 18 is designated as National Honey Bee Day to bring awareness and education about the honey bee industry.<\/p>\n

Honey bees are really fascinating creatures. They do double duty of pollinating plants to produce flowers, fruits and vegetables as well as produce their own food source of honey. Did you know they are the only insects that provide a food source for us?\"\"<\/p>\n

There is so much I didn’t know about honey bees, but had a blast learning. Did you know<\/span><\/span> outside of the primate family, honey bees have the most complex symbolic language on Earth? <\/span><\/em>Check out this site<\/a> for a more in-depth understanding of the role of the bees in their colony (also known as a hive<\/em>).<\/p>\n

Plus, here is another site<\/a> that gives you all sorts of cool facts about bees and honey such as:<\/p>\n