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Winter patties or pollen patties: how to choose the...

9 months ago
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honey bee behavior

The winter solstice: day one of bee season

1 year ago
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bee biology

What are temporal castes in honey bees?

12 months ago
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Honey bee carrying pollen. Pixabay photo
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Why honey bee lives are so short

11 months ago
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Snow scene: Are your honey bees ready for winter?
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One last sting: a fitting end to 2020

2 years ago
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Books for Beeple: two fun reads for a winter’s eve

2 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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1 year ago
Microplastics stick to a bee just as pollen does. It gets caught in the bees' hair and packed into pollen baskets. Bees also drink plastics in water.
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A looming honey bee threat: colorful little...

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It’s nearly impossible to save a dying bee

3 years ago
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A honey bee enjoys foraging on a Caryopteris shrub.
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Tempting blue-flowered Caryopteris makes bees soar:...

4 weeks ago
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Don't harvest honey from a new hive unless the bees have enough to overwinter.
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When can I harvest honey from a new hive?

5 months ago
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Hive tapping is an easy way to estimate colony health. It doesn't harm the bees because noise is normal.
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The winter hive: to tap or not to tap

3 years ago
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How to feed stacked nucs in winter

4 years ago
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Bees make honey by collecting nectar, adding enzymes, and removing water.
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Bee secrets: what happens when bees make honey?

6 months ago
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Peek inside a feeder frame

3 years ago
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This baby opossum spent its days eating dead bees under one of my hive stands. Opossums don't cause much trouble until adulthood. Rusty Burlew
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How to repel 7 ruthless animals that eat honey bees

3 months ago
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

Bee-yond Bees

Bees are more than a hobby; they are a life study, in many respects a mirror of our own society.

—William Longgood

Why Honey Bee is Two Words

Regardless of dictionaries, we have in entomology a rule for insect common names that can be followed. It says: If the insect is what the name implies, write the two words separately; otherwise run them together. Thus we have such names as house fly, blow fly, and robber fly contrasted with dragonfly, caddicefly, and butterfly, because the latter are not flies, just as an aphislion is not a lion and a silverfish is not a fish. The honey bee is an insect and is preeminently a bee; “honeybee” is equivalent to “Johnsmith.”

—From Anatomy of the Honey Bee by Robert E. Snodgrass

State Insects

The non-native European Honey Bee is the state insect of:

  • Arkansas
  • Georgia
  • Kansas
  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
  • Nebraska
  • New Jersey
  • North Carolina
  • Oklahoma
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Utah
  • Vermont
  • West Virginia
  • Wisconsin

Not one native bee is a state insect. The closest relative of a North American native bee to make the list is the Tarantula Hawk Wasp, the state insect of New Mexico.

Minnesota now has a state bee as well as a state insect. Bombus affinis, the Rusty-Patched Bumble Bee, has been so honored. Good work, Minnesota!

Connecticut’s state insect is the European “praying” mantis. Although they are beneficial insects, they are not native to North America.

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