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Playing with fire: the reasons we all love beeswax candles

5 months ago

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Brood combs get darker with batch of brood.

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What’s the best and highest use for dark beeswax combs?

6 months ago

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How to make beeswax food wraps step by step

3 years ago

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13 min read

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Rendering beeswax in the microwave

5 years ago

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3 min read

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This is what wax bloom looks like: weird white mold

6 years ago

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How to make a steam melter for beeswax

8 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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And now . . . normal wax scales

11 years ago

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Filter beeswax with old socks and a crockpot

11 years ago

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What is first rinse water?

11 years ago

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Waxing eloquent

11 years ago

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Honey bee exuding wax from abdomen. Photo by Debbe Krape.

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The best bee butt photo

11 years ago

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Another rendition of rendering beeswax

11 years ago

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Think extracting is messy? Try melting beeswax

12 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.