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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers

For my friends in the UK: the telescoping cover

September 19, 2012

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers • varietal honey

Wednesday wordphile: terroir

December 21, 2011

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: vitellogenin

November 30, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: precocious foraging

November 23, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers • honey production

Wednesday wordphile: honey flow

September 7, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

bee biology • English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: proboscis

August 24, 2011

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: bee sting cake

July 13, 2011

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bee stories • English for beekeepers • miscellaneous musings

Are they worker bees, girls, or units?

June 16, 2011

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

beekeeping equipment • English for beekeepers • honey bee behavior

Wednesday wordphile: bee space

June 15, 2011

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers • varroa mites

Wednesday wordphile: hygienic behavioral disorder

June 8, 2011

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers • queen rearing

Wednesday words: queen-rearing terminology

June 1, 2011

4 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers • varroa mites

What is survivor stock?

May 25, 2011

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers • queen rearing

Wednesday wordphile: grafting

May 18, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

beekeeping equipment • English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: eke

April 13, 2011

1 min read

A newly emerged mason bee peeks from its nesting tube. Rusty Burlew

English for beekeepers

Ocelli: tiny bee eyes

March 30, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: phenology

March 23, 2011

2 min read

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.