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Autumn Joy sedum. Photo by Leonora Enking.
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Snack food for bees: Autumn Joy sedum

April 20, 2015
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Bee-u-tify flower seeds for bees

April 18, 2015
12 Comments
2 min read
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An act of defiance: plant a flower

March 9, 2015
15 Comments
3 min read
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Winter aconite attracts pollinators

February 20, 2015
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Lemon queen sunflowers for pollinators

February 12, 2015
22 Comments
2 min read
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Bee plant survey results

February 5, 2015
33 Comments
3 min read
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Bee plants and your hardiness zone

February 2, 2015
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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The crocuses are popping

January 22, 2015
6 Comments
1 min read
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Viper’s bugloss: a top-tier honey bee plant

January 11, 2015
33 Comments
4 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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A pair of enemies share a pear

October 13, 2014
14 Comments
2 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

October 12, 2014
22 Comments
4 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Bees in the buckwheat

September 22, 2014
31 Comments
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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A honey of a bee

July 22, 2014
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1 min read
Just before a nectar dearth, foragers may be extra busy like this honey bee on a blackberry bloom.
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How to recognize a nectar dearth & safeguard your bees

July 21, 2014
43 Comments
6 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Bees on Eryngium

July 17, 2014
10 Comments
1 min read
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Where have all the flowers gone?

April 25, 2014
32 Comments
4 min read
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Bee Wise

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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