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Category - honey

Marketing your honey: never call it sugar free.
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Marketing your honey: make your claims crystal clear

6 years ago
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Aqua-green honey for your dining pleasure

6 years ago
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Raw honey
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Raw honey: what it means to buyers and sellers

6 years ago
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Does cannabis honey come from cannabis flowers?
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Is cannabis honey really a thing?

6 years ago
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Do bees make poison ivy and poison oak honey?

6 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Lavender honey from the source

7 years ago
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Rebuttal: bees turn sugar into honey

7 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Is your honey cut with sugar syrup?

7 years ago
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Pearlescent honey glimmers from within

8 years ago
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Is my honey safe to eat?

9 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Meadowfoam honey?

9 years ago
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Stinky honey

9 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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How long does it take bees to change sugar syrup to honey?

9 years ago
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Does pasteurization of honey kill Clostridium botulinum?

10 years ago
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Does your honey have that new-car smell?

10 years ago
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Cooking with honey

10 years ago
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

Bee-yond Bees

Bees are more than a hobby; they are a life study, in many respects a mirror of our own society.

—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.

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.

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