{"id":4832,"date":"2015-09-08T08:00:13","date_gmt":"2015-09-08T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4832"},"modified":"2015-08-11T15:30:33","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T19:30:33","slug":"september-is-national-honey-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4832","title":{"rendered":"National Honey Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Honey Month!<\/p>\n<p>According to the National Honey Board, honey bees are responsible for pollinating up to eighty percent of insect-pollinated plants that comprise as much as one third of America&#8217;s\u00a0diet. As a byproduct of this process, more\u00a0than 300 types of honey can be found in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate National Honey Month, we have picked out a few resources in the DLG that feature\u00a0honey and honeybees. We hope you enjoy them.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4833\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4833\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu\/cdm\/ref\/collection\/ajc\/id\/7487\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4833\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Beekeeper-holding-honeycomb-300x234.jpg\" alt=\"Beekeeper holding a honeycomb, Atlanta, Georgia, February 17, 1946. Local identification number: AJCN036-110d, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.\" width=\"300\" height=\"234\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Beekeeper-holding-honeycomb-300x234.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Beekeeper-holding-honeycomb.jpg 478w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4833\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beekeeper holding a honeycomb, Atlanta, Georgia, February 17, 1946. Local identification number: AJCN036-110d, Atlanta Journal-Constitution Photographic Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4834\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4834\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/gastatefair\/id:gsf026\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4834\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honey-exhibit-Georgia-State-Fair-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph of the A.B. Hamlin Jr. Honey exhibit at the Georgia State Fair, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, 1920-1939? Photograph held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Georgia State Fair Records, 1906-, box 12, folder 100b, photograph of A.B. Hamlin, Jr. Honey exhibit.\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honey-exhibit-Georgia-State-Fair-300x243.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honey-exhibit-Georgia-State-Fair.jpg 451w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4834\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph of the A.B. Hamlin Jr. Honey exhibit at the Georgia State Fair, Macon, Bibb County, Georgia, 1920-1939? Photograph held by the Middle Georgia Archives, Washington Memorial Library, Georgia State Fair Records, 1906-, box 12, folder 100b, photograph of A.B. Hamlin, Jr. Honey exhibit.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4835\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4835\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/caes\/do:0004-001-001-080-002\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4835\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honey-entomologists-300x239.jpg\" alt=\"Honey entomologist exhibits at extension workers conference in Athens. College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) Photograph Collection, University Archives, Hargrett Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.\" width=\"300\" height=\"239\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honey-entomologists-300x239.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Honey-entomologists.jpg 890w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4835\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Honey entomologist exhibits at extension workers conference in Athens. College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (CAES) Photograph Collection, University Archives, Hargrett Library, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4836\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4836\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/ggp\/id:s-ga-ba400-b-pm1-b2012-bb42-belec-p-btext\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4836\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Africanized-honey-bees-300x231.jpg\" alt=\"Bee smart! bee cool: a children's guide to Africanized honeybees. Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture\" width=\"300\" height=\"231\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Africanized-honey-bees-300x231.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Africanized-honey-bees-1024x790.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Africanized-honey-bees.jpg 1054w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4836\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bee smart! bee cool: a children&#8217;s guide to Africanized honeybees. Georgia. Dept. of Agriculture.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>September is National Honey Month! According to the National Honey Board, honey bees are responsible for pollinating up to eighty percent of insect-pollinated plants that comprise as much as one third of America&#8217;s\u00a0diet. As a byproduct of this process, more\u00a0than 300 types of honey can be found in the United States. To celebrate National Honey &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/?p=4832\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;National Honey Month&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[316,318,317],"class_list":["post-4832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commemorative-events","tag-agriculture","tag-bees","tag-honey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4832"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9066,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4832\/revisions\/9066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.dlg.galileo.usg.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}