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What happens when bees make pollen into magic bee bread?

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Surprisingly, pollen tastes bitter, so why do bees love it?

4 years ago

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The role of pollen in honey bee nutrition

7 years ago

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Why do honey bees waste pollen?

7 years ago

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Using a top-mounted pollen trap

7 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Collecting pollen from honey bees

8 years ago

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Can a colony collect too much pollen?

8 years ago

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Can I collect pollen from a Flow hive?

8 years ago

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Bee on a corn tassel

9 years ago

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bee forage • pollen • pollination ecology

Does pink pollen make pink honey?

11 years ago

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Honey bees all tangled up in blue pollen: bee-witching!

12 years ago

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honey bee behavior • pollen

Bee with bi-pollen disorder?

12 years ago

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bee forage • pollen

Honey bees: be good and eat your greens!

12 years ago

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honey bee nutrition • pollen

Pollen variety and bee health

12 years ago

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This book started zillions of people on their path to beekeeping. If you haven't read it, you should.

QueenSpotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive by Hilary Kearney. You have to be a scrooge not to love this book. It even includes 48 queenspotting challenges.

The Bees in Your Backyard by Wilson & Carril. If you have any interest at all in the "other bees," you need this book. These are the bees we need to save.

Manuka: The biography of an extraordinary honey by Cliff van Eaton. The discovery of manuka honey and its medicinal properties.

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.

Category - pollen

What happens when bees make pollen into magic bee bread?

Surprisingly, pollen tastes bitter, so why do bees love it?

The role of pollen in honey bee nutrition

Why do honey bees waste pollen?

Using a top-mounted pollen trap

Collecting pollen from honey bees

Can a colony collect too much pollen?

Can I collect pollen from a Flow hive?

Bee on a corn tassel

The dandelions of spring

Does pink pollen make pink honey?

Bumble bee with mixed pollen

Honey bees all tangled up in blue pollen: bee-witching!

Bee with bi-pollen disorder?

Honey bees: be good and eat your greens!

Pollen variety and bee health