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Trying to kill bees with vinegar is probably a waste of time.
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How to kill bees with vinegar (it never works)

7 months ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths

Monday morning myth: no-forage zones

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths • predators

Freeze your frames to kill wax moths

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment • honey bee myths

Monday morning myth: bees need a front porch

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths • queen bees

Monday morning myth: attendants must be removed from queen cages

12 years ago
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A queen with other bees. For best results, do not clip the wings of your queen.
honey bee myths • queen bees

Do clipped wings prevent swarming? Not often

12 years ago
7 Comments
2 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths • varroa mites

Monday morning myth: small-cell foundation discourages Varroa mites

12 years ago
47 Comments
3 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths

Honey bee myth: bees don’t sting at night

13 years ago
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A winter day with snow. Honey bees do not hibernte but keep active all winter long.
honey bee behavior • honey bee myths

Honey bees do not hibernate any time of year

13 years ago
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2 min read
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths • royal jelly

Monday morning myth: royal jelly is good for you

13 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey • honey bee myths

Monday morning myth: creamed honey is whipped

13 years ago
3 Comments
2 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
  • 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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