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Liquid gold

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Not only is there a pot of liquid gold at the end of this rainbow, it’s nestled in hive number 7. How lucky is that? Herb Lester Apiaries, Tennessee.

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Emily says:
July 31, 2012 at 7:14 pm
Brilliant! One to enter in competitions.
ScoobyDoBee says:
August 3, 2012 at 4:09 am
Too kewl!
Intheswamp says:
August 13, 2012 at 5:20 am
Nice photo, Herb. This link is to my little first-year bee yard, but seems there must be a leprechaun running around the woods here, too! 😉 Took this one on July 21st. Seems there are several of these white boxes scattered around with the potential of a pot of gold in them. 🙂
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Ed

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.

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