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A honey bee standing at the edge of a water source. Pixabay
honey bee threats

Honey bee down! How to help a drowning bee

4 weeks ago
24 Comments
5 min read
This baby opossum spent its days eating dead bees under one of my hive stands. Opossums don't cause much trouble until adulthood. Rusty Burlew
honey bee threats

How to repel 7 ruthless animals that eat honey bees

1 month ago
10 Comments
9 min read
AFB vaccine: The queen bee passes her immunity to her offspring through her egg yolks.
honey bee threats

How much will the new AFB vaccine help honey bees?

2 months ago
29 Comments
6 min read
Microplastics stick to a bee just as pollen does. It gets caught in the bees' hair and packed into pollen baskets. Bees also drink plastics in water.
honey bee threats

A looming honey bee threat: colorful little microplastic particles

3 months ago
13 Comments
13 min read
Here, yellowjackets are lined up on the door to a storage shed, making it difficult to enter. The nest is protected inside the shed.
predators

The ultimate yellowjacket trap is in your trash

6 months ago
31 Comments
7 min read
Red plexiglass hive lids fight small hive beetles.
pests

Red plexiglass lids for small hive beetles

8 months ago
21 Comments
5 min read
pesticides

Aerial spraying and honey bees

2 years ago
10 Comments
4 min read
honey bee threats

Even honey bees struggle with air pollution

3 years ago
6 Comments
4 min read
diseases

Repeat after me: Nosema does not cause dysentery

3 years ago
20 Comments
6 min read
pesticides

Assessing a pile of dead bees: what happened?

4 years ago
16 Comments
5 min read
pesticides

Mosquito spraying decimates honey bees

4 years ago
35 Comments
5 min read
A robber fly catches a honey bee for dinner. © Erik Luthy.
predators

Robber fly dining on a honey bee

4 years ago
8 Comments
3 min read
pesticides

The Pesticide in Our Own Backyards

4 years ago
45 Comments
11 min read
parasites

The slippery life of the small hive beetle

5 years ago
50 Comments
13 min read
Three hives where the varroa drawers were pulled out by rats.
predators

Rats as honey bee predators

5 years ago
16 Comments
2 min read
hive stands and structures • honey bee threats

Freakish wind topples bee hives

5 years ago
49 Comments
4 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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