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feeding bees

How to make sugar syrup easy: mistakes to avoid

2 years ago
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Should you feed pollen supplement in spring?

2 years ago
23 Comments
5 min read
The pollen from the top-mounted trap is very clean and free of hive debris. Rusty Burlew
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Dry pollen substitute vs pollen patties: which is best?

3 years ago
23 Comments
5 min read
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Peek inside a feeder frame

3 years ago
14 Comments
3 min read
When the zinc coating begins to corrode, it sheds as a grayish-white powder which may be toxic to bees.
feeding bees

The truth about zinc: is it toxic to honey bees?

3 years ago
29 Comments
5 min read
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How to feed stacked nucs in winter

3 years ago
24 Comments
6 min read
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Don’t let your bees go hungry

4 years ago
71 Comments
4 min read
Bananas are not good for bees. Save them for your breakfast cereal.
feeding bees

Have beekeepers gone bananas?

4 years ago
31 Comments
4 min read
Hens behind a chain link fence. Is poultry blood in bee feed a good idea.
feeding bees

Up next: bird blood in bee feed

5 years ago
44 Comments
6 min read
Honey bees dump their sugar when it's in the granulated form, but stop once it clumps together.
feeding bees

The simple reason bees dump their sugar outside

5 years ago
25 Comments
4 min read
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The sugar syrup recipe isn’t hard: don’t overthink

6 years ago
114 Comments
5 min read
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An ancient marine tea service for thirsty bees

6 years ago
8 Comments
2 min read
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A non-threatening water source for bees

6 years ago
37 Comments
1 min read
Save baker's yeast for baking
feeding bees

Brewer’s yeast or baker’s yeast for bees?

6 years ago
21 Comments
3 min read
Bees enjoying the pollen
feeding bees

Pollen feeders for honey bees

7 years ago
36 Comments
4 min read
Most beekeepers use two common sugar syrup ratios when feeding honey bees.
feeding bees

How important are sugar syrup ratios?

7 years ago
63 Comments
4 min read
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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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  • Maine
  • Mississippi
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  • 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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