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A-Z hives are traditionally kept in a decorated bee house to protect the bees.
hive stands and structures

A-Ž hives in a Slovenian-style apiary: awesome yet...

2 months ago
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Microplastics stick to a bee just as pollen does. It gets caught in the bees' hair and packed into pollen baskets. Bees also drink plastics in water.
honey bee threats

A looming honey bee threat: colorful little...

3 months ago
13 Comments
bee biology

Surprising ways to identify a honey bee like a pro

4 months ago
37 Comments
bee biology

Why is it so difficult to breed better bees?

5 months ago
38 Comments
Female carpenter bee nectar robbing. Robert Noble.
wild bees and native bees

The eastern carpenter bee: an unloved nectar-robbing...

7 months ago
7 Comments
Honey bee drinking from a hose bibb. Rusty Burlew
water for bees

Bees and water: the ladies drink for free

9 months ago
12 Comments
Bear Crossing sign: The county kept dropping hints, but I didn’t pay attention. Photo by Rusty Burlew.
apiary creatures

Black Bears Destroy a Beeyard

9 months ago
14 Comments
pollination

Two Pollination Myths You Shouldn’t Believe

11 months ago
13 Comments
bee biology

The many styles of bee sociality

11 months ago
7 Comments
apiary creatures

Is spotted lanternfly honey good for beekeepers? Or...

1 year ago
13 Comments
bee biology

Hey Bee, Stick Out Your Tongue and Say “Ahh” 

1 year ago
23 Comments
pollination

The special way bees and flowers help each other

1 year ago
19 Comments
bee feces

Waste management: even the bees do it

1 year ago
12 Comments
English for beekeepers

Beekeeping vocabulary: the best beekeepers get the...

1 year ago
60 Comments
honey

Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?

1 year ago
18 Comments
beekeepers

The cost of beekeeping (you don’t want to know)

2 years ago
27 Comments
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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.

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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