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Why all your honey bee colonies are not the same

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How to identify a honey bee using wing veins

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The Detritus of Brood Rearing: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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What is a honey bee drone congregation area?

3 years ago
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swarming

Why extra space may not prevent swarming

3 years ago
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A quick-start guide to honey bee antennae

3 years ago
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absconding

Why did your bees leave their hive?

3 years ago
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What is the lifespan of a drone honey bee?

3 years ago
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absconding

Two beekeepers watch their bees abscond

3 years ago
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The names of bee segments: how Ⅱ became 1

4 years ago
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swarming

My swarm arrived 38 minutes late

4 years ago
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Why save a laying-worker colony?

4 years ago
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What are winter bees and what do they do?

4 years ago
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Happiness is a mid-winter cleansing flight

4 years ago
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Do honey bees fly in the rain?

4 years ago
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Why does this bee suit smell like vomit?

4 years 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.

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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