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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
varietal honey

Carrot honey . . . really!

January 9, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeepers • varietal honey

Flying Bee Ranch gets a soaring A

January 2, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey

Baking with honey

December 28, 2011
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
English for beekeepers • varietal honey

Wednesday wordphile: terroir

December 21, 2011
2 min read
varietal honey

Tamarisk honey: a dark secret

December 19, 2011
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey

Honey so bland it’s boring

December 2, 2011
12 Comments
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If honey has no pollen, is it still honey? DepositPhotos
honey

Discovering the truth: is honey with no pollen still honey?

December 1, 2011
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

What about the other 125 species of maple?

October 5, 2011
4 Comments
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey

Why did my honey granulate?

October 2, 2011
8 Comments
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

The allure of bigleaf maple honey

September 30, 2011
22 Comments
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey • pesticides

The truth about organic honey

August 11, 2011
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bees in the news • honey

A rare case of “honey intoxication” in Seattle

July 17, 2011
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
comb honey production • honey • pests

Freeze combs to prevent wax moth damage

May 9, 2011
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey • miscellaneous musings

Mississippi honey: the sweetest gift

May 6, 2011
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Three glasses of lemade with drinking straws. You can use wash water for cooking and baking.
honey

Don’t toss the honey with the wash water!

February 10, 2011
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey

How acidic is honey? Compare with orange juice & acid rain

January 15, 2011
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Bee Wise

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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