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Category - feeding bees

feeding bees

A hive population wake-up call

January 28, 2016
52 Comments
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HMF molecule png
feeding bees

Hydroxymethylfurfural in sugar syrup

December 17, 2015
40 Comments
4 min read
Nail-pattern into feeder
feeding bees • how to

How to make no-cook candy boards for wintering bees

November 20, 2015
151 Comments
10 min read
Bees-on-a-sugar-tray
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What’s wrong with this picture?

July 8, 2015
24 Comments
2 min read
A bee watering dish made from sea glass. Andrew Graham
feeding bees

Sea glass bee watering dish

June 23, 2015
6 Comments
1 min read
Marbles-in-water-for-bees
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A marble bar for bees

June 19, 2015
32 Comments
2 min read
MREs for bees
feeding bees • how to

How to feed bees in freezing weather

January 17, 2015
48 Comments
5 min read
feeding bees

AFB-fortified pollen

December 9, 2014
7 Comments
3 min read
feeding bees

A shortage of pollen for bees

December 7, 2014
11 Comments
5 min read
Picture of bee-collected pollen pellets. Pollen substitute does not contain real pollen, but it contains the nutrients bees need.
feeding bees

Should I feed pollen substitute to my bees?

December 2, 2014
46 Comments
5 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees

When the feed is too close

August 16, 2014
16 Comments
3 min read
feeding bees • how to • wintering

How to use a quilt with a candy board

January 27, 2014
29 Comments
3 min read
Granulated sugar can be fed to bees as crystals, syrup, or fondant.
feeding bees • how to

The minimalist guide to winter feeding

January 6, 2014
74 Comments
3 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees

Tea in the honey bee diet

November 18, 2013
16 Comments
3 min read
Pollen-sub-mixed-with-sugar
feeding bees

Pollen patties need a warning: Use with caution!

November 12, 2013
81 Comments
8 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees

Put the syrup close to the bees

October 6, 2013
19 Comments
2 min read
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

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—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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