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Fall management: How many bees is enough for successful wintering?

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Fall management of honey bee colonies

August 29, 2014

6 min read

A frame full of honey. How much honey do you need to leave for winter? Nancy McClure

The remarkable amount of honey your bees need for winter

August 19, 2014

8 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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S(tuff) happens

February 10, 2014

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Hives with real quilts

February 8, 2014

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

photographs • wintering

The snow wars continue

February 1, 2014

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

photographs • wintering

Hives in real snow

February 1, 2014

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

photographs • wintering

Snow in Georgia

January 29, 2014

1 min read

feeding bees • how to • wintering

How to use a quilt with a candy board

January 27, 2014

3 min read

Report from the 47th parallel

December 18, 2013

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Whose honey is it?

October 24, 2013

3 min read

guest posts • how to • wintering

How to wrap a hive to overcome cold weather

October 21, 2013

9 min read

Autumn is a good time to combine hives, especially if some are weak.

Winter is frightening: should I combine weak colonies now?

October 16, 2013

5 min read

Too many bees for the winter months.

bee stories • wintering

Too many bees for the middle of winter

January 9, 2013

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

feeding bees • wintering

Syrup does not belong in a cold hive

January 6, 2013

5 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

Opening your hive in winter

January 4, 2013

3 min read

It’s winter and I’m tired of seeing dead bees!

January 3, 2013

4 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.

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.