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predators

Robber fly dining on a honey bee

2 years ago
8 Comments
3 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
Hornet nest on transformer.
honey bee threats • predators

Bald-faced hornet nests in New York

5 years ago
5 Comments
3 min read
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guest posts • predators

Beekeeping with Asian hornets in France

5 years ago
106 Comments
9 min read
predators

Spiders that eat bees

5 years ago
5 Comments
3 min read
Shiny-abdomens
predators

Colony postmortem: a glistening pile of abdomens

5 years ago
47 Comments
3 min read
predators

You’ve never seen yellowjackets like this

5 years ago
9 Comments
2 min read
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Colony death by yellowjacket attack

5 years ago
52 Comments
9 min read
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predators

The blaming of the shrew

6 years ago
23 Comments
4 min read
predators

Honey bee: It’s what’s for dinner

6 years ago
5 Comments
2 min read
predators

Robber flies grab bees in flight

7 years ago
14 Comments
2 min read
predators

The sign of the sting

7 years ago
5 Comments
1 min read
honey bee threats • predators

Italian mob takes down a wasp

7 years ago
17 Comments
3 min read
honey bee threats • predators

Protect your bees from autumn wasps

7 years ago
35 Comments
3 min read
honey bee threats • photographs • predators

Bear crossing

7 years ago
23 Comments
1 min read
predators • wild bees and native bees

Bumble burger

8 years ago
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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.”

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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.

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!

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