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What does terroir have to do with honey?

7 months ago

12 min read

Kudzu honey and the scent of Kool-Aid

3 years ago

5 min read

Old-Blue-Raw-Honey-front

Do bees make poison ivy honey?

5 years ago

5 min read

Lavender honey from the source

6 years ago

4 min read

Meadowfoam honey?

8 years ago

1 min read

Kudzu: the dark secret of purple honey?

9 years ago

3 min read

What is honeydew honey?

10 years ago

3 min read

bee forage • varietal honey

Honey bee forage: black locust

10 years ago

3 min read

Is tree honey slow to granulate?

10 years ago

3 min read

Carrot honey . . . really!

10 years ago

2 min read

beekeepers • varietal honey

Flying Bee Ranch gets a soaring A

10 years ago

3 min read

English for beekeepers • varietal honey

Wednesday wordphile: terroir

10 years ago

2 min read

Tamarisk honey: a dark secret

10 years ago

3 min read

bee forage • varietal honey

What about the other 125 species of maple?

10 years ago

2 min read

bee forage • varietal honey

The allure of bigleaf maple honey

10 years ago

3 min read

Thixotrophic honey gels in the comb

11 years ago

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.

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!