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 Grams (9.2 x 4.8 x 4.8 cm, 6.845 Troy Ounces)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 65.143:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/5594
#ArtNouveau

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.)

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

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:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/430978
#WomenArtists

#WorldHoneyBeeDay The third Saturday in August is World Honey Bee Day ... #Antinous (wearing a farmer's sun hat) as #Aristaeus, who saved the world's bees. Antinous was identified by the Ancients with Aristaeus, the son of #Apollo and the river-nymph Cyrene. Aristaeus taught humans beekeeping. When all the bees died, Aristaeus plunged into a sacred river to find a divine miracle ... just as Antinous plunged into the Nile to find deification and work miracles: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/05/as-bees-mysteriously-disappear-we.html

Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay: As a boy in Bithynia (Turkey), #Antinous must have tasted #MadHoney: bees honey made from rhododendron blossoms. Causes hallucinations when mixed with drinks. You can still get it in the mountains where #Antinoos was born: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2024/08/the-birthplace-of-antinous-is-home-of.html

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay 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 https://t.co/FiYucuxJwN
Ashmole Bestiary, MS Ashmole 1511 f.75v
Bodleian Libraries https://digital.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/objects/faeff7fb-f8a7-44b5-95ed-cff9a9ffd198/surfaces/a497f4b3-76db-4572-aa1d-01334ea0d0b9/

For #WorldHoneyBeeDay :
#Beehive with Blackberry Branches (Cheese Stand)
Minton & Co., design registered 1862
glazed earthenware ( #majolica )

spotted at last year’s Majolica Mania exhibition at the Walters Art Museum

Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay: #Antinous as divine beekeeper #Aristaeus, who plunged into a sacred river to work a miracle to #SaveTheBees. #Antinoos/#Aristée, Musee Louvre. We need a beekeeping miracle now as bees vanish worldwide. More: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/05/as-bees-mysteriously-disappear-we.html #HoneyBeeDay

Today is #WorldHoneyBeeDay: As a boy in Bithynia (Turkey), #Antinous must have tasted #MadHoney: bees honey made from rhododendron blossoms. Causes hallucinations when mixed with drinks. You can still get it in the mountains where #Antinoos was born: https://antinousstars.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-birthplace-of-antinous-is-home-of.html

Update 19-August-2023: resharing for #WorldHoneyBeeDay

Happy #WorldBeeDay!
#DYK only 8 of the world’s ~20,000 species of #bees are #honeybees (the Apis genus)?

Victoria Fuller (American, b. 1953)
Spelling Bee, 2014
craft fur, epoxy clay, acrylic, resin, mylar, chloroplast
from the Project: Nature exhbition at the Susquehanna Art Museum

In 2021, the EU imported 173 400 tonnes of honey from non-EU countries. 25 500 tonnes were exported outside the EU.
Extra-EU imports mainly from:
Ukraine (53 800 tonnes, 31%)
China (48 000 tonnes, 28%)
https://europa.eu/!7ctQTM
#WorldHoneyBeeDay

: https://nitter.eu/EU_Eurostat/status/1560614977467449345