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Category - predators

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predators • wild bees and native bees

Bumble burger

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Nectar dearth and summer stress

10 years ago
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Danger in the flowers

10 years ago
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honey bee threats • predators

A bear with table manners

10 years ago
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honey bee threats • predators

Vandals in the beeyard

10 years ago
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honey bee threats • predators

Flies with a wicked thirst

11 years ago
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honey bee threats • predators

The allure of decapitation

11 years ago
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honey bee threats • predators

The birds and the bees

11 years ago
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honey bee behavior • predators

Update on ants

11 years ago
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A morning snack of cedar planks

11 years ago
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predators

It’s time to think about wasps

11 years ago
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honey bee myths • predators

Freeze your frames to kill wax moths

11 years ago
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apiary creatures • predators

Yellowjacket redux

11 years ago
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Yellowjacket nest falls from the sky

11 years ago
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honey bee behavior • predators

Bee abortion

11 years ago
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honey bee management • predators • robbing

Yellowjackets and honey-robbing bees go hand-in-hand

12 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:

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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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