{"id":16812,"date":"2022-08-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=16812"},"modified":"2022-08-18T11:30:22","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T15:30:22","slug":"happy-honeybee-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=16812","title":{"rendered":"Happy Honeybee Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s Honeybee Day! To celebrate these buzzing beauties, do your part in taking care of them. The College of Natural Science has outlined what you can do to help the bees in the Michigan Pollinator Initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Michigan Pollinator Initiative aids MSU in furthering the MSU 2030 Strategic Plan. The strategic plan highlights MSU\u2019s goal to achieve <a href=\"https:\/\/strategicplan.msu.edu\/strategic-plan\/stewardship-sustainability\">stewardship and sustainability<\/a>. Here\u2019s a few tips you can use to help our honeybees and be a good steward of resources, pursuing initiatives in a manner that ensures MSU\u2019s long-term sustainability and success..&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Remove Bees Safely<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you discover bees on your property that are disruptive, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michiganbees.org\/problem-and-unwanted-bees\/\">work with a local beekeeper<\/a> to see if they can be saved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Plant for Pollinators<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Add more flowering plants to your home garden or lawn. To learn more about this process, click <a href=\"https:\/\/pollinators.msu.edu\/resources\/pollinator-planting\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Advocate<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Understanding policies and advocating for pollinators is a great way to support the bees. To do this, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/pollinators.msu.edu\/help-the-bees\/advocate\/\">find your representatives or learn more about the legislative process<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To learn about the Michigan Pollinator Initiative and find out more about what you can do, click <a href=\"https:\/\/pollinators.msu.edu\/help-the-bees\/\">here<\/a>. To learn more about the MSU 2030 Strategic Plan, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/strategicplan.msu.edu\/\">strategicplan.msu.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s Honeybee Day! To celebrate these buzzing beauties, do your part in taking care of them. The College of Natural Science has outlined what you can do to help the bees in the Michigan Pollinator&hellip; <a class=\"continue\" href=\"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/?p=16812\">Continue Reading&#8230;<span> Happy Honeybee Day!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":16813,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0},"categories":[6],"tags":[721,724,723,103],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/Honeybee-2.jpg?fit=1200%2C628&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb1fcA-4na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16812"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16814,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16812\/revisions\/16814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16813"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sourcelive.hr.msu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}