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The Upstairs Downstairs Intrance: better hive access

1 year ago
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Varroa drawers: The varroa drawers and screens are interchangeable and easy to clean.
beekeeping equipment

A short history of the Valkyrie long hive

1 year ago
39 Comments
beekeeping equipment

Slatted racks: everything you need to know

1 year ago
61 Comments
beekeeping equipment

Newly-painted hives eager for spring

2 years ago
7 Comments
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In praise of the Langstroth hive

2 years ago
23 Comments
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Use an oxalic acid vaporizer with caution

2 years ago
15 Comments
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Once upon a bottom board

3 years ago
35 Comments
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Slicing a brood box into ekes

3 years ago
13 Comments
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BeeCounted.org: a new site for sharing hive data

3 years ago
11 Comments
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The Valkyrie long hive: built with love for bees and their keepers

3 years ago
88 Comments
beekeeping equipment

Woodworking plans for beekeepers

4 years ago
27 Comments
beekeeping equipment

The undervalued robbing screen

4 years ago
113 Comments
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A controversy over screened inner covers

4 years ago
63 Comments
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Footwear for beekeepers: What’s your favorite?

4 years ago
63 Comments
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Guardian Bee Apparel presents the perfect bee suit

4 years ago
70 Comments
Internal-hive-temperature
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An instant-read hive thermometer for winter colonies

4 years ago
51 Comments
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—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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