We are BUZZING with excitement over the Brandywine Zoo's Valentine's Day fundraiser- Bee Sweet! We need your help to name the bees in the Zoo's hive!
We aren’t just WAXING poetically, as pollinators, bees play a vital role in our ecosystem in Delaware and around the world. They pollinate approximately 130 agricultural crops in the US including fruit, fiber, nut, and vegetable crops. Foragers must collect nectar from about 2 million flowers to make 1 pound of honey and the average honey bee will actually make only one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in its lifetime. A honey bee can fly for up to six miles, and as fast as 15 miles per hour, which means it would have to fly around 90,000 miles - almost 470 times from the zoo to the furthest point south in Delaware and back again – to make one pound of honey. That's a lot of pollination and a lot of bees to make everything work!
Our Brandywine Zoo bees need your help. As little as $5 goes a long way, but for $10 (or more), you can give our bees some names. So BEE positive!
For a donation of:
$10: Name a bee after your Honey
$25: Name up to three bees
$50: Name up to seven bees*
$100: Name up to ten bees PLUS the names you submit will be entered into a drawing to name the Queen Bee!*
*Donors who give $50 or more can choose to receive a plush bee toy and two guest Zoo passes. A Zoo representative will contact donors with more information.
Bee Plush Toy and Two Guest Zoo Passes to those donors who donate $50 or more and choose to receive these items.
Don’t have a Honey to name? You can still help! For a $10 donation, you can also name a mealworm after your ex - many of the Zoo's animals including the scarlet ibis, bearded dragon, and golden lion tamarins LOVE mealworms!
When making your donation, you can leave us your bee name (first names only) by selecting the "Do you want to recognize someone with this donation?" Make sure you check “Yes, make this in honor or memory of someone,” where you can enter the namesake(s) of your bee(s), using commas to separate each name. Please do not submit slurs, curse words, or culturally insensitive words; they will not be displayed on our website. You can denote if it is a bee or a mealworm you would like to name at the start of the names, following these examples:
Bee - Maria, Tom, Sam, Mealworm – Frank
Bee – Joe, Leslie
Mealworm – Charles, Ted, Leonard
All named bees and mealworms will be shared on the zoo's bee colony page, as well as the winner of the Queen Bee naming!
All donations to this fundraiser will go to support the Brandywine Zoo, the bee colony, and planting new pollinator habitats in the Zoo.
We hope you COMB through your list of current and former honeys and will BEE generous.
Thank you for supporting the Brandywine Zoo and bees everywhere!
We can't wait to be SWARMED by your submissions.
Stay BeeUtiful,
The Brandywine Zoo
About Delaware Zoological Society (Brandywine Zoo)
Mission: The Delaware Zoological Society is a dedicated partner of the Brandywine Zoo and supports its mission to engage in, and inspire wildlife conservation.
The purpose of the Delaware Zoological Society is to provide a comprehensive program of conservation, education and recreation to the citizens of the State of Delaware and the Brandywine Valley in support of the Brandywine Zoo.
The Brandywine Zoo is managed by DNREC Division of Parks and Recreation with the support of the Delaware Zoological Society.
The Delaware Zoological Society is a non-profit membership organization. Membership is a great way to help us while you benefit too. Members pay one annual fee and may visit the zoo without charge as often as desired, Members also get priority access to programs and discounts on key offerings, like camps.
The Society’s Annual Fund campaign helps fund the day-to-day work needed to run the business of the zoo, and the Our ZOO Re-imagined capital campaign looks to fund big improvements on the grounds of the zoo. Both campaigns welcome donors.
