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Honey bees nurture inner peace by just doing what they're programed to do, and worrying about nothing but the job at hand.

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Simple ways honey bees nurture inner peace & shatter anxiety

6 months ago

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Don't worry! Feeling afraid of bees can be overcome by starting slowly in the beginning.

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How to start beekeeping even if you’re afraid of bees

10 months ago

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It’s time to soapbox the new beekeepers

1 year ago

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The cost of beekeeping (you don’t want to know)

2 years ago

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Beekeepers and the Dunning-Kruger Effect: Unskilled and Unaware

2 years ago

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Ethical beekeeping: What is it and who cares?

2 years ago

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A beekeeper asks, “When do I quit?”

3 years ago

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Once I remembered why I kept bees and decided beekeeping was not a competitive sport, I was able to shrink the apiary.

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To become the best beekeeper, learn it’s not a competitive sport

3 years ago

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Overcome wintertime beekeeping worries with a good self-preservation checklist

4 years ago

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An age-old question about the age of beekeepers

5 years ago

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An orange-handled bee brush. Always use a bee brush carefully

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Are Women Better Beekeepers?

5 years ago

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9 min read

Honey bees on the top bars of a Langstroth hive. Don't tax a new hive too soon.

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Scrooge, the beekeeper, presents five New Year resolutions

6 years ago

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A last-minute gift for a special beekeeper

6 years ago

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A Merry Thanksgiving To You from Honey Bee Suite

6 years ago

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Welcome to “Bee Space”

6 years ago

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Making a hive into a home

6 years ago

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This book started zillions of people on their path to beekeeping. If you haven't read it, you should.

QueenSpotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive by Hilary Kearney. You have to be a scrooge not to love this book. It even includes 48 queenspotting challenges.

The Bees in Your Backyard by Wilson & Carril. If you have any interest at all in the "other bees," you need this book. These are the bees we need to save.

Manuka: The biography of an extraordinary honey by Cliff van Eaton. The discovery of manuka honey and its medicinal properties.

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

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.