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Post-package anxiety

10 years ago

3 min read

how to • making increase • spring management

Doing the Mississippi splits

10 years ago

3 min read

spring management

How to checkerboard a hive

10 years ago

3 min read

honey bee behavior • spring management • swarming

Checkerboarding: the X-files of beekeeping

10 years ago

3 min read

honey bee behavior • spring management • swarming

Backfilling the brood nest

10 years ago

3 min read

feeding bees • spring management

Must I feed a new package of bees?

10 years ago

3 min read

spring management

The perils of spring for bees

11 years ago

2 min read

robbing • spring management

Use caution when removing entrance reducers

11 years ago

1 min read

feeding bees • honey bee nutrition • spring management

What vitamins should I give to my bees?

11 years ago

3 min read

spring management

Measuring the bone pile: death in the hive

11 years ago

1 min read

spring management

Rotate brood combs for a healthier nursery

11 years ago

3 min read

beekeeping equipment • spring management

What to do with moldy combs

11 years ago

3 min read

spring management

Reversing brood boxes: is it necessary?

11 years ago

4 min read

feeding bees • spring management

Spring caution: handle the brood nest with care

11 years ago

3 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!