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🌱 happy #WorldHoneyBeeDay
antiquity.ac.uk Antiquity Journal @antiquity.ac.uk · Aug 16
Ancient beehives from c. 900BC Tel Reḥov in the Jordan Valley for #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🏺
The hollow clay cylinders have a small hole at one end (for the 🐝) and a lid at the other (for the beekeeper).

🔗 from 2008 (£) doi.org/10.1017/S000...
Black-and-white photo of a row of clay cylinders in an excavated trench. They have a small, round hole on one end and a lid on the other.
August 16, 2025 at 8:18 PM
lbflyawayhome.bsky.social
On #worldhoneybeeday

Honey bee
(Do you Know book, 1972)

Artist: Frank Humphris
A detailed close-up illustration of a honeybee collecting pollen from a yellow plant 
August 15, 2026 at 7:05 AM
peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
For #WorldHoneyBeeDay an illustration from a 15th-century manuscript of Virgil's Georgics.
August 19, 2026 at 7:02 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · May 20
For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 here are 2 golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:
Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r
Aberdeen University Library t.co/FiYucuxJwN
Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v
Bodleian Libraries digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/faef...
Bee: illustration from an illuminated bestiary, bees entering their hives, goldleaf background "Bees are the smallest birds, and live as a community in hives." https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery260.htm Aberdeen University Library, Univ. Lib. MS 24 (Aberdeen Bestiary), folio 63r Bee: illustration from an illuminated bestiary, bees entering their hives, goldleaf background "Bees flying in formation to enter their hives. Bee hives like these appear in many manuscripts, and are similar to ones used by medieval beekeepers." https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery260.htm Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511 (The Ashmole Bestiary), folio 75v
August 16, 2026 at 2:07 AM
peterpaulrubens.bsky.social
It's #WorldHoneyBeeDay - from a 14th-c. health handbook based on 11th-c. Maintenance of Health by Ibn Butlan of Baghdad.
August 19, 2025 at 6:55 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Aug 18
For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:
Perfume Bottle, c.1893
Designed by Paulding Farnham (USA, 1859-1927) for Tiffany & Co.
Gold, agate, yellow sapphires, demantoid garnets, red garnets, amethyst
3 5/8 x 1 7/8 x 1 7/8 in., 212.9 g
Metropolitan Museum of Art 65.143:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#ArtNouveau
official museum photo of the perfume bottle on grey background “The agate body of this perfume bottle was carved to resemble honeycomb, while the gold and silver ornament depicting bees and honeysuckle flowers continues the theme. Originally, a conical yellow sapphire adorned the top of the lid. The report by the French ministry of commerce on Tiffany’s display at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition in Chicago highlighted this bottle as a particularly fine and original example of the firm’s oeuvre.”
August 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
paulbavister.bsky.social
honey bee
#worldhoneybeeday
August 15, 2026 at 11:06 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Aug 18
For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:
#Beehive with Blackberry Branches (Cheese Stand)
Minton & Co., design registered 1862
glazed earthenware (#majolica)
(Photographed at the Majolica Mania exhibition the Walters Art Museum in 2022.)
photo of the beehive-shaped majolica cheese stand on display at museum
August 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Aug 18
Happy #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝!
#DYK only 8 of the world’s ~20,000 species of bees are honeybees (Apis genus)?
Victoria Fuller (American, b. 1953)
Spelling #Bee, 2014
craft fur, epoxy clay, acrylic, resin, mylar, chloroplast
from the Project: Nature exhbition at Susquehanna Art Museum
#WomenArtists
sculpture of a honeybee on a letter B made out of honeycomb cells
August 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
Resharing for #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝
animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Aug 18
For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:
#Beehive with Blackberry Branches (Cheese Stand)
Minton & Co., design registered 1862
glazed earthenware (#majolica)
(Photographed at the Majolica Mania exhibition the Walters Art Museum in 2022.)
photo of the beehive-shaped majolica cheese stand on display at museum
August 16, 2026 at 2:07 AM
yredknap.bsky.social
I have just found out that today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay. Here is a wee honeybee collecting pollen and nectar from a white rose.
#Photography #Bees #Weebees #Pollinators #ECK
August 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · May 20
For #WorldBeeDay 🐝 here are 2 golden illuminations from a pair of famous early 13th c. English bestiaries:
Aberdeen Bestiary, Univ. Lib. MS 24 f.63r
Aberdeen University Library t.co/FiYucuxJwN
Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v
Bodleian Libraries digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/faef...
Bee: illustration from an illuminated bestiary, bees entering their hives, goldleaf background "Bees are the smallest birds, and live as a community in hives." https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery260.htm Aberdeen University Library, Univ. Lib. MS 24 (Aberdeen Bestiary), folio 63r Bee: illustration from an illuminated bestiary, bees entering their hives, goldleaf background "Bees flying in formation to enter their hives. Bee hives like these appear in many manuscripts, and are similar to ones used by medieval beekeepers." https://bestiary.ca/beasts/beastgallery260.htm Bodleian Library, MS. Ashmole 1511 (The Ashmole Bestiary), folio 75v
August 16, 2025 at 3:23 PM
artbyemilytull.bsky.social
#WorldHoneybeeDay
"Honey Bee"
Hand embroidery artwork
www.emilytull.co.uk/store/p215/h...
#WildlifeArt #FiberArt
A square of cream canvas fabric with a hand embroidered honey bee going diagonally from bottom right to top left
August 16, 2025 at 6:44 PM
halemberg.bsky.social
Been sitting watching these chaps on the lavender 🐝
#worldhoneybeeday
August 15, 2026 at 1:24 PM
misheleneous.bsky.social
#WorldHoneyBeeDay 🐝
misheleneous.bsky.social misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social · Aug 13
Look Buzzin this #Summer - as we say in #Manchester 🐝

Heidi's pastel #Bee print dog Bandanas are available in 5 colours & various sizes

There are squeaky dog #Bones to play with indoors too for when it inevitably rains again 🦴

Get 15% off in the #Sale at misheleneous.etsy.com

#Etsy #Dogs #Gifts
5 different coloured pastel bee print fabric dog toy bones by misheleneous. Stacked in a row on top of matching bandanas Heidi border terrier modelling a mint green bee print dog bandana by misheleneous
August 16, 2025 at 11:46 AM
mygardenuk.bsky.social
@oldmanrambling.bsky.social mentioned that it is #WorldHoneyBeeDay.

Here’s a #WeeBee on a Japanese Anemone from last year.
They’ve not done as well this year due to the heatwave.

#Bees #Honey #PreciousPollinators #FlavoursOfNature
#Flowers #Anemones #Nature #Garden
August 15, 2026 at 12:03 PM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Aug 18
Happy #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝!
#DYK only 8 of the world’s ~20,000 species of bees are honeybees (Apis genus)?
Victoria Fuller (American, b. 1953)
Spelling #Bee, 2014
craft fur, epoxy clay, acrylic, resin, mylar, chloroplast
from the Project: Nature exhbition at Susquehanna Art Museum
#WomenArtists
sculpture of a honeybee on a letter B made out of honeycomb cells
August 16, 2026 at 2:06 AM
greennomad61.bsky.social
"For you it's just a spoonful of #honey in your tea or with a meal.
For them, it's their whole life"
~ Plant Based News

#WorldHoneyBeeDay
#SaveTheBees 🐝
#Vegan

Everything that is on this planet is simply not ours for the taking.
I think about this so often.
August 17, 2025 at 5:43 AM
welshcats.bsky.social
#WorldHoneyBeeDay
August 15, 2026 at 6:38 AM
animal-aspects.bsky.social
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animal-aspects.bsky.social Animal Aspects (Art History Animalia) @animal-aspects.bsky.social · Aug 18
For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 🍯🐝:
Candace Wheeler (USA, 1827–1923)
#Bee with Honeycomb, 1881
Wallpaper fragment printed in 6 colors with 4 additional metallic colors
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 1987.1074.1:
www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
#WomenArtists
“Candace Wheeler was an advocate for the development of women’s skills in the service of their financial self-sufficiency. She appreciated wallpaper’s universal appeal and affordability, "making beauty possible to those who have little as well as those who have much." This wallpaper sample derives from a design that she submitted in 1881 to an international competition sponsored by the American wallpaper manufacturer Warren, Fuller & Lange. Wheeler’s bees-and-honeycomb pattern won first prize but also received criticism. While some lauded her relatively naturalistic initial rendition, others considered the design "quite unsuited for ordinary use" because "insects buzzing at one all day assuredly would not contribute to that sense of repose which, as a rule, a good wall-paper should afford."”
August 16, 2025 at 3:24 PM
roamintheempire.bsky.social
#RomanSiteSaturday and #WorldHoneyBeeDay; the Xemxija apiary in northern Malta. Originally constructed in the Punic-Roman period, it may have first functioned as tombs before later being repurposed as an apiary.

#Archaeology #RomanArchaeology #AncientBlueSky 🏺
August 16, 2025 at 3:17 PM
martamagellan.bsky.social
Today is World Honey Bee Day!

@picturebookgold.bsky.social #bees #honeybees #insects #worldhoneybeeday #threatenedspecies
August 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
folkloretwitcher.bsky.social
#WorldHoneyBeeDay
Two Medieval cone-shaped hives side by side. Two bees are entering, one either hive. Medieval manuscript
August 16, 2025 at 5:48 PM
anderseide.bsky.social
We depend on them, so treat them well 🐝🐝🐝 #WorldHoneyBeeDay
August 15, 2026 at 8:06 PM
andrewhaglington.bsky.social
#Bee #BeeDay
#WorldHoneyBeeDay
#Honey #Bees
#SaveTheBees
#Pollinators
#Flower #Garden
August 16, 2026 at 5:22 AM