Silver Bee Jewelry—Jewel Bee Pendant Necklace

Zealandia's award winning silver bee jewelry is beloved worldwide for the special attention and care we take with one of Nature's smallest and most precious creatures. Honeybee populations are on the decline, and we need these friendly insects now more than ever. The honeybee is the world's essential pollinator. His work supports the proliferation of plant life and so supports every member of the food chain.

Jenny Byrne, our lead designer, conceived of a bee jewelry line shortly after hearing of the honeybee's plight. It is her hope that our bee inspired jewels will bring beauty, inspiration, and awareness into others' lives. The more we can raise awareness about declining honeybee levels, the better involved we can all become in stopping this alarming trend. Our jewel bee pendant necklace is designed to honor the mighty bee, which ancient Egyptians held as a symbol of the soul.

The Bee Habitat necklace finds our honeybee in his natural environment, represented here in gleaming sterling silver and honey colored 14k gold fill accents. The bee is placed at the heart of this pendant and a sparkling garnet—known as the heart stone—is set above him in a rich mixed metal treatment.

The honeybee himself is carved from fossilized mammoth ivory, a prized natural material that is over 15,000 years old. Mammoth ivory tells a story of eras past when the great wooly mammoth still roamed the earth. The mammoth tusk ivory has spent many thousands of years buried in permafrost or underground where it can be colored the warm creams to soft browns that signify this ancient material. This ancient ivory from an animal long-ago extinct is especially poignant in our bee carved ivory pendant given the honeybee's current threatened populations.