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Repeat after me: Nosema does not cause dysentery

1 year ago

6 min read

diseases

Why are my bees crawling in front of the hive?

4 years ago

6 min read

burning bee hives

diseases

Will American foulbrood make a comeback?

5 years ago

4 min read

diseases

How common is foul brood in honey?

6 years ago

3 min read

diseases

Sharing more than extractors

8 years ago

3 min read

diseases • how to

How to clean up from Nosema apis

8 years ago

4 min read

diseases

Can humans catch bee dysentery?

8 years ago

1 min read

diseases

What is idiopathic brood disease syndrome?

8 years ago

2 min read

diseases • parasites • varroa mites

Varroa mites feeding on a sick bee

9 years ago

2 min read

absconding • diseases

Absconding or CCD?

9 years ago

2 min read

diseases

Deformed wing virus

10 years ago

2 min read

diseases • honey bee management • how to • making increase • queen bees • swarming

How to make a swarm-control split

11 years ago

3 min read

diseases • honey bee behavior

A great day for bees: down with honey bee dysentery

11 years ago

3 min read

bees in the news • diseases • wild bees and native bees

Pollen can carry disease to native bees

11 years ago

2 min read

diseases • parasites

Tropilaelaps clareae: another scary creature for bees

11 years ago

2 min read

apiary creatures • diseases • parasites

Small but mighty: mites in the beehive

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!