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comb honey production • honey • pests

Freeze combs to prevent wax moth damage

10 years ago

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How many frames should you put in a Langstroth box?

10 years ago

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comb honey production • honey bee management • how to • making increase • queen rearing

How to make a cut-down split

10 years ago

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beekeeping equipment • comb honey production

Comb honey: Bee-O-Pac system

10 years ago

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comb honey production • English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: travel stain

10 years ago

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comb honey production

Chunk honey: a strange hybrid

10 years ago

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comb honey production

Comb honey production part 1: The why of it

10 years ago

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comb honey production • diseases • honey bee management

Freezing honeycomb protects it from wax moth damage

10 years ago

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comb honey production • honey bee management

A sweet surprise

11 years ago

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Fermenting honey

comb honey production • honey • honey bee nutrition • photographs

Uncapped honey fermenting in the comb

11 years ago

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comb honey production

Why I don’t extract my honey harvest

11 years ago

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Queen-bee-Pixabay photo

beekeeping equipment • comb honey production

The queen excluder controversy: some things never change

11 years ago

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beekeeping equipment • comb honey production • infrequently asked questions

Do beekeepers smoke bees with marijuana?

11 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

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!