English for Beekeepers
The posts listed here dive into my personal hang-ups about the English language.
- Learn to love the scientific names of bees
- Beekeeping vocabulary: the best beekeepers get the words right
- Does honey flow from flowers? Never.
- Do bees have knees?
- Varroa: a mite by any other name
- Have more than one bee? Add an s.
- The vocabulary of beekeeping: phoretic
- Bee words having Latin plurals
- Is she a queen or just a female bee?
- Why we fear scientific names
- Consider the honeybee bee
- Comb decoded
- Is a solitary bee a mason bee?
- “Bee” and “honey” in 42 languages, just in case
- English for beekeepers: basic terminology
- Hive or colony: What is the difference?
- For my friends in the UK: the telescoping cover
- Wednesday wordphile: terroir
- Wednesday wordphile: vitellogenin
- Wednesday wordphile: precocious foraging
- Wednesday wordphile: honey flow
- Wednesday wordphile: proboscis
- Wednesday wordphile: bee sting cake
- Are they worker bees, girls, or units?
- Wednesday wordphile: bee space
- Wednesday wordphile: hygienic behavioral disorder
- Wednesday words: queen-rearing terminology
- What is survivor stock?
- Wednesday wordphile: grafting
- Wednesday wordphile: eke
- Ocelli: tiny bee eyes
- Wednesday wordphile: phenology
- Wednesday word file: slumgum
- Wednesday word file: pollination saturation
- Sonication is a way of releasing trapped pollen
- Wednesday word file: nectar guide
- Wednesday word file: forage
- Wednesday word file: pollinia
- Wednesday word file: super
- Wednesday wordphile: floral fidelity
- What is trophallaxis?
- Wednesday word file: protandry
- Wednesday word file: last sting-of-the-year
- Wednesday word file: fructose
- Wednesday wordphile: phoresy
- Wednesday wordphile: travel stain
- Wednesday word file: drone congregation area (DCA)
- Wednesday word file: frass
- Casting light on honey bee castes
- Honeybee or honey bee? Which is correct?
- Latin 101 for beekeepers: What’s in a name?
- Bee box terminology: what to call all the sizes