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Honey bee pheromones: common scents

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Open-air colonies from coast to coast

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Coaxing them through the excluder

7 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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My bees won’t go through a queen excluder

7 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Smoke and bees: the effect of wildfires

7 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Packing more than pollen

8 years ago
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Mysterious behavior
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A beekeeping mystery

8 years ago
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Robbing and fighting and falling in clumps

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Do honey bees eat fruit?

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Favorite watering holes

9 years ago
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Just before a nectar dearth, foragers may be extra busy like this honey bee on a blackberry bloom.
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How to recognize a nectar dearth & safeguard your bees

9 years ago
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Abuzz about you: do bees get angry?

9 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Honey bees unite!

9 years ago
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Scattered brood typical of laying workers. © Rusty Burlew.
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Drone-laying queen or laying workers?

9 years ago
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Bee ready to bite a nest mate

9 years ago
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honey bee behavior • robbing

Robbing bees on a mission

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

—George Bernard Shaw

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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
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  • 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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