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Honey bees on a camping trip

9 years ago

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Beekeeping in the dog days of summer

10 years ago

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The best ventilated gabled roof

10 years ago

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Hive five: the best ventilation equipment

10 years ago

3 min read

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How to make a screened inner cover

10 years ago

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Hive five: equipment to improve summer ventilation

10 years ago

3 min read

physics for beekeepers • ventilation

Physics for beekeepers: How does ventilation increase honey production?

10 years ago

4 min read

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What history tells us about hive ventilation

10 years ago

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Summer ventilation increases honey yield

11 years ago

2 min read

honey bee behavior • ventilation

Why do bees collect on the bottom board?

11 years ago

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How to make a moisture quilt for a Langstroth hive

11 years ago

5 min read

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Ventilation in a hot & humid climate

11 years ago

2 min read

honey bee management • ventilation • wintering

Are your honey bees ready for winter?

11 years ago

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Bearding bees

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Bearding is often confused with swarming

11 years ago

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Ventilation Part 4: The summer Langstroth hive

12 years ago

3 min read

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Ventilation Part 3: Warré hives take ventilation seriously

12 years ago

3 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.

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!