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Home » Archives for June 2012

Archive - June 2012

bee biology

Fecal retention in bee larvae

9 years ago
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wild bees and native bees

Trekking for pollinators

9 years ago
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beekeepers • guest posts

Fluffy bums and fault lines

9 years ago
6 Comments
mason bees

Mason bee covered in mites

9 years ago
15 Comments
honey bee management • queen bees

Can’t find your queen? Are you queenless or clueless?

9 years ago
59 Comments
photographs

Thursday’s bees

9 years ago
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honey bee management • how to • swarming

Pyramiding: getting bees to move up

9 years ago
38 Comments
pollen • wild bees and native bees

Bumble bee with mixed pollen

9 years ago
6 Comments
miscellaneous musings • pollinator threats

Pollinator week: what’s the point?

9 years ago
5 Comments
pollination

Daffodil seeds are easy to get

9 years ago
11 Comments
swarming

One that got away

9 years ago
13 Comments
wild bees and native bees

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my

9 years ago
5 Comments
beekeeping equipment

A beer box for bees

9 years ago
12 Comments
honey bee behavior

A hive of a different color

9 years ago
17 Comments
beekeeping equipment

Painting the inside of beehives

9 years ago
21 Comments
guest posts • hive products • royal jelly

A royal jelly factory in New Zealand

9 years ago
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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:

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  • 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.

Update! 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!

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