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One last sting: a fitting end to 2020

2 months ago
38 Comments
4 min read
Bee hives in winter.
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Are winter bee stings worse than others?

4 years ago
81 Comments
3 min read
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Stings of winter bees

5 years ago
52 Comments
4 min read
Honey bees kill a hornet.
stings

Nine facts about bee stingers

5 years ago
24 Comments
3 min read
pesticides • queen rearing • stings

When the weak become strong

7 years ago
34 Comments
6 min read
bee stories • stings

The suspense of the sting

7 years ago
23 Comments
4 min read
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Sting relief

7 years ago
37 Comments
3 min read
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Allergy or just scary looking?

8 years ago
28 Comments
3 min read

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Bee Wise

Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

Bee-yond Bees

Bees are more than a hobby; they are a life study, in many respects a mirror of our own society.

—William Longgood

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.”

—From Anatomy of the Honey Bee by Robert E. Snodgrass

State Insects

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.

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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