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pesticides

Aerial spraying and honey bees

3 months ago

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4 min read

honey bee threats

Even honey bees struggle with air pollution

7 months ago

5 Comments

4 min read

diseases

Repeat after me: Nosema does not cause dysentery

1 year ago

17 Comments

6 min read

pesticides

Assessing a pile of dead bees: what happened?

2 years ago

12 Comments

5 min read

pesticides

Mosquito spraying decimates honey bees

2 years ago

33 Comments

5 min read

predators

Robber fly dining on a honey bee

2 years ago

8 Comments

3 min read

pesticides

The Pesticide in Our Own Backyards

2 years ago

44 Comments

11 min read

parasites

The slippery life of the small hive beetle

3 years ago

50 Comments

13 min read

Three hives where the varroa drawers were pulled out by rats.

predators

Rats as honey bee predators

3 years ago

16 Comments

2 min read

hive stands and structures • honey bee threats

Freakish wind topples bee hives

3 years ago

49 Comments

4 min read

diseases

Why are my bees crawling in front of the hive?

3 years ago

45 Comments

6 min read

Demise of colony collapse disorder. Weak queens may be the real problem.

honey bee threats

The demise of colony collapse disorder

4 years ago

27 Comments

1 min read

bees in the news • honey bee threats

Haunted by losses, a Maryland beekeeper speaks out

4 years ago

17 Comments

6 min read

honey bee threats • predators

Bald-faced hornet nests in New York

4 years ago

5 Comments

3 min read

guest posts • predators

Beekeeping with Asian hornets in France

4 years ago

106 Comments

9 min read

diseases

Will American foulbrood make a comeback?

4 years ago

21 Comments

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.

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!