Did you know that the third Saturday in August is World Honey Bee Day? Bees and flowers need each other, so it’s no surprise that this is an important day for us at Every Day Bouquet. Bees need pollen and nectar to make honey and keep their hives thriving. Flowers also need the bees to pollinate them so that they can continue to produce seeds and grow more flowers. But in the last decade or so, honey bees have suffered from something called Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD). The good news is that cultivating flowers helps the bees, so you help the bees every time you send flowers in NH!
Let’s take a look at what CCD is and how businesses like ours help the bees.
What is CCD?
Colony Collapse Disorder is a phenomenon that beekeepers have observed since 2006. Without warning, nearly all of the worker bees will abandon their hive, leaving behind the queen and a few nurse bees. Beekeepers and scientists do not know what causes CCD. Their theories include environmental factors and the use of chemical pesticides, but they have yet to come up with a definitive answer.
How do flower shops help bees?
The short answer is that we purchase and cultivate flowers! Whether a florist grows their own flowers or buys them from a farm, someone somewhere is growing a lot of flowers. And both florists and flower farms need to grow more flowers than they cut so that they can maintain their supply. Because of their interest in continuing to grow flowers, everyone involved in the industry is also invested in protecting the bees.
There are many symbiotic relationships in nature, but few are as well known as flowers and bees. In the phrase “the birds and the bees,” the bee part refers to how flowers produce seeds to grow more flowers. Flowers make nectar the bees need to feed their hive and make honey. When they land on flowers to collect nectar, they become covered in pollen and carry it to other flowers of the same species so that they can create seeds and reproduce.
Send Flowers in NH and Save the Bees!
At Every Day Bouquet, our mission is to normalize sending flowers “just because.” Many people still feel that they need a reason to send flowers in NH. So if you don’t have a special occasion but still want a reason to send flowers to your loved ones, why not help save the bees by supporting a local florist?
