{"id":8703,"date":"2025-09-11T20:17:47","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:17:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/?p=8703"},"modified":"2025-09-11T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T20:21:08","slug":"when-bees-sleep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/when-bees-sleep\/","title":{"rendered":"When Bees Sleep"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Things to say to a seven-year-old<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Mojave Desert, the bright yellow desert gold flowers open wide in the sunshine. They look like little suns shining across the sand. Bees love to visit, buzzing from one bloom to the next, sipping sweet nectar and rolling in golden pollen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As the sun sinks low, the flowers start to close their petals. It\u2019s bedtime for desert gold. But sometimes, a bee is still inside. When the petals fold shut, the bee is tucked in\u2014safe and snug in a soft bed of pollen. The flower becomes a tiny motel room just for bees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On windy nights, the motel isn\u2019t always calm. The flower sways and shakes, tossing the bee about like a boat on stormy water. That\u2019s what makes it \u201cwild\u201d life. But even if it gets bumpy, the bee is better off inside than out in the cold desert night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bees are hard workers with a wonderful work ethic. They don\u2019t even leave the job when it\u2019s time to rest. They sleep right at work, in golden beds of pollen. And when the morning sun warms the desert and the flowers open again, the bees are already up and ready\u2014buzzing off to do their important work all over again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sunflower<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Damn Yellow Flowers<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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Things to say to a seven-year-old In the Mojave Desert, the bright yellow desert gold flowers open wide in the sunshine. They look like little suns shining across the sand. Bees love to visit, buzzing from one bloom to the next, sipping sweet nectar and rolling in golden pollen. As the sun sinks low, the … Continue reading “When Bees Sleep”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[215,167],"tags":[1847,1846,822,479,1850,13,1851,875,1853,1852,1848,1849,1854,719],"class_list":["post-8703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-nature","tag-bee-behavior","tag-bees","tag-desert-ecology","tag-desert-gold","tag-desert-life","tag-mojave-desert","tag-native-bees","tag-natural-history","tag-pollen","tag-pollination","tag-pollinators","tag-sleeping-bees","tag-wildflower-motel","tag-wildflowers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8703"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8710,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8703\/revisions\/8710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digital-desert.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}