Lately, the concerns about bees being endangered have become widely noted among people all over the world, but information on how to take action about it has become scarce in this age. That’s why World Bee Day exists to educate people about the importance of bees and how they can help preserve them for the sake of the future. If you want to help save these fuzzy insects from extinction, then read down below to find out what World Bee Day is about!
History of World Bee Day
World Bee Day corresponds with an important influencer in the pioneering of beekeeping. Anton Janša, who in the 18th century pioneered modern beekeeping techniques in his native Slovenia, was one of the first people to help bring about the importance of bees in the world environment. Since then, beekeeping has become a vital necessity in the world’s ecosystems and economic systems. However, not many people realize the importance of bees or know how to help save the bees, which led to the announcement of World Bee Day through the United Nations.
The United Nations designated World Bee Day to raise awareness of the importance of bees. Bees are under a continuous threat from human activity, which includes the introduction of invasive insects, pesticides, land-use change, and monocropping practices, which have continuously been destroying bee colonies over time. World Bee Day helps educate people about the importance of bees and what they do for the environment, which includes how they help grow 90% of the world’s wildflower plants, 35% of the world’s crops depend on bees to grow, and how they help build ecosystems all over the world. With these statistics, the United Nations has created various programs all over the world to increase awareness of protecting bees and what you can do to help this cause.
This day is also open to other pollinators as well as bees, like bats, hummingbirds, and butterflies. Together these essential animals help keep ecosystems healthy and maintain biodiversity. Bees and other creatures also help us fight problems on a global level, like world hunger and helping to adapt to climate change. These fantastic fuzzy creatures help keep our plants and our planet alive.
If you look at bees as creatures, they are a fascinating insect even without all the services they provide for us. For instance, the phrase bee’s knees makes absolutely no sense, because bees actually don’t have knees. Bees also communicate by dancing – can you imagine if humans didn’t talk and only communicated via the medium of dance? If you consider honey as well, it has also been used as an antiseptic and treatment for burns and wounds for centuries.
Bees have been around for thousands of years, and the very first bee found was 100 million years old! Bees might also have been the very first species to decide to go vegetarian. Originally, our fuzzy friends used to eat other insects, but they evolved to eat nectar and pollen instead. Bees have long supported us, humans with honey being a monumental discovery for our ancestors (it must have been tough for them to gather!). From sweetening food to dressing wounds, we loved honey so much that our children are still named after bees. Names like Melissa and Ali mean bee in Greek and Urdu, showing that across the world, we share a global appreciation for bees.
France
A frog swims between water buttercups in the Ardeche river near Vallon-Pont-d'Arc, southern France, as the country is under a strict lockdown.
Joke of the Day
SISTER'S GRADUATION
Me: My sister graduated from college. I wish you could have been there. She wore a cap and nightgown.
Bob: A nightgown?
Me: Yeah. She went to night school.
Spain
A man wearing a mask walks his dog in Madrid.
Word of the Day
reconnoiter or reconnoitre
MEANING:
verb tr., intr.: To explore or scout an area for gathering information. noun: An act of reconnoitering.
ETYMOLOGY:
From obsolete French reconnoître, from Latin recognoscere, from re- (again) + gnoscere (to know). Ultimately from the Indo-European root gno- (to know), which is also the source of know, recognize, acquaint, ignore, diagnosis, notice, normal, agnostic, incognito, connoisseur, cognize, anagnorisis (the moment of recognition or discovery), and prosopagnosia (inability to recognize faces). Earliest documented use: for verb 1705, for noun 1781.
USAGE:
“A river voyage is an easy way to reconnoitre a remote region.” Sarah Nicholson; Just Around the Bend; Herald Sun (Melbourne, Australia); Feb 24, 2019.
“A quick reconnoiter found no kind of habitat, and little of anything made for human hands.” C Stuart Hardwick; Dangerous Company; Analog Science Fiction & Fact (New York); Mar/Apr 2019.
Argentina
A capybara on the shore of Laguna de los Padres lake, near Mar del Plata, Argentina. Capybaras can now be seen often since the lockdown imposed by the government keeps people away from public parks.
Idiom of the Day
Appearances are deceptive
Meaning: Internal truth of a person is usually different from what is visible outside.
Thailand
An employee takes the temperature of a cat at the reopened Caturday Cat Cafe in Bangkok.
This Day in History
1506 - In Spain, Christopher Columbus died in poverty.
1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1899 - Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding. The posted speed limit was 12 miles per hour.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" was released. It was not successful until it was released in 1955 on the soundtrack to "Blackboard Jungle."
1977 - The stage show "Beatlemania" opened at the Winter Garden Theater, New York.
1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, at age 53, became the first woman to run across America. It took Hutchinson 69 days to run the 3,000 miles.
1980 - The submarine Nautilus was designated as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S. Secretary of the Interior.
1982 - TV’s "Barney Miller" was seen for the last time on ABC-TV. 1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs. 1993 - The final episode of "Cheers" was aired on NBC-TV. 2010 - Five paintings worth 100 million Euro were stolen from the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. DAILY SQU-EEK
If You Were Born Today, May 20
You possess much strength of character, warmth, sensuality, and intuition. While grounded and steady overall, you have a flair for the dramatic. You are exceptionally self-aware and spend your life learning, largely through intuition and observation. You are loving and kind but seldom forget a slight. Famous people born today:
1944Joe Cocker, English rock vocalist (With a Little Help from My Friends), born in Sheffield England, (d. 2014)
1944Dietrich Mateschitz, Austrian businessman and co-creator of Red Bull energy drink, born in Sankt Marein im Mürztal, Styria, Austria 1946 Cher [Cherilyn Sarkisian], American singer and actress (I Got You Babe, Jack Lalane, Mask), born in El Centro, California thanks, Maria
READERS INFO
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(Not So) Totally Useless Facts of The Day:
About 55% of people yawn after reading the word “yawn.” People who always feel the need to correct other people's grammar are suffering from a form of OCD called Grammar Pedantry Syndrome. A sophomaniac is a person who's under the delusion that they are extremely intelligent.
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1899 -
TODAY:In 1899, French actress Sarah Bernhardt premières an adaptation of Shakespeare's Hamlet with herself in the title role at the Paris theatre where she took over management and renamed the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt.
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Coronavirus Style by Sylvia, CAN DO Correspondent
Ain't got, got, got no time...
Some of my friends and I, now into our ninth week of isolation, are experiencing time in a new way. You sit down for a cup of tea, and it's two hours later. This happens so much it was scary at first, then I found I had to check my calendar to make sure I knew what day it was. Then on those days when something is actually happening in my life, I feel rushed. Yesterday and today its admin for a foodbank. Cooking used to be a small part of my day, now I feel like I spend half of it in the kitchen, and running when the phone rings. Weird.
Guatemala
A COVID-19-themed cake made by Guatemalan pastrycook Roberto de Leon in Guatemala City.
a branch of theRussian Museum, and now houses its portrait
gallery.
Big Chipper, Finland
Europe’s biggest woodchipper, the black woodpecker, tosses
out woodchips from the nest hole he has been fashioning. The
hole is a major excavation, probably extending 60cm down into
the trunk. The woodpecker’s chisel-like beak has a high-strength
inner layer of bone and a flexible outer layer that helps reduce
the shock of the vibrations. If the female finds the nest chamber
to her satisfaction, she will lay two to eight eggs, which the pair
take turns to incubate.
France
A woman wearing a face mask to protect against coronavirus is pictured through a hole in a cardboard cut out of Clint Eastwood in Cannes. The festival's 73rd edition has been postponed indefinitely.
A woman teaches her dog to find a piece of fabric that was infected with COVID-19 during a training session in Maison-Alfort, France. A group of dogs are being trained to detect the virus, thanks to their sense of smell.
Staff members spraying disinfectant at a theatre as it prepares to reopen in Yantai in China's eastern Shandong province.
WORD SEARCH
alarm aurora
barren birds
chassis
dictatorial dolt
extensive
future
ground grout
indigent inert intelligent
leer light loose lower
moron
nasty
orbit
perspicacious pledge power
right
sees shoddy soul stone
street suits sulky surge
tender treat trees
world
Japan
An escalator at a subway station in Tokyo.
SUDOKU ... hard
solution:
Washington, DC
Sen. Richard Burr and Sen.Tim Kaine elbow bump at the start of a Senate hearing on Capitol Hill.
QUOTE
thanks, Michelle
Singapore
Migrant workers pray in their dormitory during the holy month of Ramadan.
India
An assembly line for mobile phones at Lava International's manufacturing plant in Noida.
CLEVER
thanks for the decluttering idea, Helen
Put pot lids in a magazine rack.
Pot lids are hard to store since they can’t be stacked. The best way to arrange them in an organized manner is to make use of a magazine rack. Screw the magazine rack inside a cupboard or a similar preferred space.
A man wearing a home-made protective mask on the subway platform at Chatelet Les Halles station in Paris.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. -Honore De Balzac, novelist (20 May 1799-1850)
Barcelona
A health worker demonstrates to get back the five percent of salary that was cut ten years ago.
OPTICAL ILLUSION
This is a Penrose triangle, also known as the impossible triangle because of how does it works
Look at any two sides and it appears to be normal, but the third never quite seems right.
An employee takes the temperature of a cat at the reopened Caturday Cat Cafe in Bangkok.
1830 - The fountain pen was patented by H.D. Hyde.
1873 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.
1899 - Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding. The posted speed limit was 12 miles per hour.
1916 - Norman Rockwell’s first cover on "The Saturday Evening Post" appeared.
1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.
1954 - Bill Haley and the Comets' "Rock Around the Clock" was released. It was not successful until it was released in 1955 on the soundtrack to "Blackboard Jungle."
1977 - The stage show "Beatlemania" opened at the Winter Garden Theater, New York.
1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, at age 53, became the first woman to run across America. It took Hutchinson 69 days to run the 3,000 miles.
1806 John Stuart Mill, English philosopher, political economist and utilitarian, born in London (d. 1873)
1908 Jimmy Stewart, American actor (Mr Smith Goes to Washington, It's a Wonderful Life), born in Indiana, Pennsylvania (d. 1997)
1913 William Hewlett, American engineer and businessman (co-founder Hewlett-Packard), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 2001)
1915 Moshe Dayan, Israeli Military Leader and politician, born in Degania Alef, Ottoman Empire (d. 1981)
1944 Joe Cocker, English rock vocalist (With a Little Help from My Friends), born in Sheffield England, (d. 2014)
Some of my friends and I, now into our ninth week of isolation, are experiencing time in a new way. You sit down for a cup of tea, and it's two hours later. This happens so much it was scary at first, then I found I had to check my calendar to make sure I knew what day it was. Then on those days when something is actually happening in my life, I feel rushed. Yesterday and today its admin for a foodbank. Cooking used to be a small part of my day, now I feel like I spend half of it in the kitchen, and running when the phone rings. Weird.
Migrant workers pray in their dormitory during the holy month of Ramadan.
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