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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

apiary creatures • photographs

Fit for a frog blog

July 20, 2012

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

Let us see your beehives!

July 12, 2012

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

Thursday’s bees

June 21, 2012

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

photographs • wild bees and native bees

Bumble bee on cherry laurel

May 9, 2012

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

honey bee behavior • photographs

Out for a drink

May 7, 2012

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

other pollinators • photographs

Pollinators on clematis

October 24, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

In service to her majesty

August 25, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

apiary creatures • photographs

Visitor to the top-bar hive

April 15, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

A slow drink of cool water

March 10, 2011

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

apiary creatures • miscellaneous musings • photographs • wintering

December in the bee yard

December 3, 2010

2 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

apiary creatures • photographs

Another denizen of the apiary

August 15, 2010

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

mason bees • photographs

Cat on a Mason Bee Condo

July 28, 2010

1 min read

Fermenting honey

comb honey production • honey • honey bee nutrition • photographs

Uncapped honey fermenting in the comb

July 25, 2010

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

other pollinators • photographs • pollinator threats • wild bees and native bees

In search of creepy crawlies

July 20, 2010

3 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

other pollinators • photographs

Hover fly on Agastache

July 19, 2010

1 min read

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

other pollinators • photographs • wild bees and native bees

Pollinators smile and say cheese

July 14, 2010

2 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.

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.