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Book review | A Beekeeper’s Diary

April 2, 2021

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Books for Beeple: two fun reads for a winter’s eve

December 13, 2020

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Wintertime books for people who love bees

December 4, 2019

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Get a free subscription to 2 Million Blossoms!

November 18, 2019

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Want 2 Million Blossoms delivered to your door?

October 21, 2019

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Book review | Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees

December 1, 2018

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Book review | Buzzled! Bee-themed junior puzzles

October 4, 2018

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Booklet review | Splits and Varroa

March 27, 2017

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Book review | 100 Plants to Feed the Bees

December 17, 2016

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Seven good books on honey bee biology

December 13, 2016

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Book review | Simple, Smart Beekeeping

November 6, 2016

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Book review | The Sting of the Wild

August 25, 2016

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Book review | Following the Wild Bees

April 29, 2016

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Book review | Two Million Blossoms

February 12, 2016

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A wintertime reading list for bee lovers

November 24, 2015

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A guide to North American bees

November 22, 2015

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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.