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Category - pollination

pollination

Pollination syndromes can predict who will visit a flower

5 months ago
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15 min read
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Incomplete pollination and why it matters

1 year ago
6 Comments
12 min read
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How bees transfer pollen between flowers

3 years ago
21 Comments
14 min read
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Who pollinates wild black raspberries?

5 years ago
53 Comments
3 min read
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In-hive pollen transfer among honey bees

5 years ago
3 Comments
4 min read
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The secret of extrafloral nectaries

5 years ago
3 Comments
3 min read
Moose with leaves in antlers.
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Do moose pollinate alders?

6 years ago
8 Comments
3 min read
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Strung out on pollen

7 years ago
11 Comments
2 min read
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Canola pollination

7 years ago
11 Comments
1 min read
bees and agriculture • pollination

In through the back door

8 years ago
6 Comments
3 min read
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Do Brussels sprouts need pollination?

8 years ago
17 Comments
2 min read
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Do honey bees pollinate wheat?

8 years ago
2 Comments
1 min read
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What is incomplete pollination?

8 years ago
5 Comments
3 min read
miscellaneous musings • pollination

Things we forget to remember

8 years ago
11 Comments
3 min read
pollination

Daffodil seeds are easy to get

9 years ago
11 Comments
3 min read
pollination

Buttercup bees: they are what they eat

10 years ago
12 Comments
2 min read
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Why Honey Bee is Two Words

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:

  • Arkansas
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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.

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!

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