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honey bee management • predators

Nectar dearth and summer stress

8 years ago

4 min read

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Danger in the flowers

8 years ago

1 min read

honey bee threats • predators

A bear with table manners

8 years ago

2 min read

honey bee threats • predators

Vandals in the beeyard

9 years ago

3 min read

honey bee threats • predators

Flies with a wicked thirst

9 years ago

2 min read

honey bee threats • predators

The allure of decapitation

9 years ago

2 min read

honey bee threats • predators

The birds and the bees

9 years ago

2 min read

honey bee behavior • predators

Update on ants

9 years ago

3 min read

predators

A morning snack of cedar planks

9 years ago

2 min read

predators

It’s time to think about wasps

9 years ago

2 min read

honey bee myths • predators

Freeze your frames to kill wax moths

9 years ago

3 min read

apiary creatures • predators

Yellowjacket redux

9 years ago

2 min read

predators

Yellowjacket nest falls from the sky

9 years ago

2 min read

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Yellowjacket traps

10 years ago

2 min read

honey bee behavior • predators

Bee abortion

10 years ago

2 min read

honey bee management • predators • robbing

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

10 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!