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One truth about honey: it’s not made from pollen grains

7 months ago

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5 min read

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Spotlight on crystallization: how to make 2-ingredient creamed honey

8 months ago

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7 min read

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Crunchy honey: an innovative way to market crystallized honey

9 months ago

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3 min read

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Bee secrets: what happens when bees make honey?

9 months ago

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8 min read

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Liquefy honey the easy way (or maybe not)

1 year ago

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5 min read

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Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?

2 years ago

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15 min read

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What does terroir have to do with honey?

2 years ago

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12 min read

honey • miscellaneous musings

Cemetery Honey and Creepy Angel-Topped Babies

3 years ago

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10 min read

Kudzu vine in flower, one possible source of purple honey.

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Beautiful kudzu honey with the unexpected taste of Kool-Aid

5 years ago

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6 min read

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Purple honey: the genuine thing from North Carolina

5 years ago

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4 min read

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Honey’s magical power: four ways to slay microbes

6 years ago

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13 min read

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The benefits of having your honey labels printed

6 years ago

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3 min read

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The design of the honey dipper: from primitive to practical

6 years ago

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6 min read

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The mysterious disappearance of pure honey

6 years ago

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4 min read

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.

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.

Category - honey

One truth about honey: it’s not made from pollen grains

Spotlight on crystallization: how to make 2-ingredient creamed honey

Crunchy honey: an innovative way to market crystallized honey

Bee secrets: what happens when bees make honey?

Liquefy honey the easy way (or maybe not)

Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?

What does terroir have to do with honey?

Cemetery Honey and Creepy Angel-Topped Babies

Beautiful kudzu honey with the unexpected taste of Kool-Aid

Purple honey: the genuine thing from North Carolina

Honey’s magical power: four ways to slay microbes

The benefits of having your honey labels printed

The design of the honey dipper: from primitive to practical

Is infused honey safe to eat?

How to store honey at home

The mysterious disappearance of pure honey