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Create an Artificial Swarm with a Taranov Split

1 year ago

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A toast to Taranov and his split

9 years ago

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How to make a vertical split

10 years ago

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How to make a simple split

10 years ago

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How to make an overnight split

11 years ago

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Doing the Mississippi splits

11 years ago

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Splitting the top-bar hive with a shook swarm

12 years ago

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How to make a cut-down split

12 years ago

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How to make a walkaway split

12 years ago

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How to start multiple hives from a swarm-control split

12 years ago

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How to make a swarm-control split

12 years ago

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How to prevent swarming with a Taranov board

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.”

—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.

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.