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Although we worry, honey bees are built to last

2 years ago

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Things you can catch in a bait hive

4 years ago

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Bees in Idaho: a beekeeper’s first swarm

4 years ago

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My swarm arrived 38 minutes late

4 years ago

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Sun is for foraging, but bees love shade

4 years ago

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Home is the bee, home from the tree

6 years ago

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A perfect swarm

10 years ago

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honey bee behavior • swarming

One trap catches two swarms . . . at the same time

10 years ago

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honey bee behavior • swarming

“A swarm in June . . .” No, make that two

10 years ago

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A hive stand fit for a queen . . . or a swarm

10 years ago

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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!

Tag - bait hives

Although we worry, honey bees are built to last

Things you can catch in a bait hive

Bees in Idaho: a beekeeper’s first swarm

My swarm arrived 38 minutes late

Sun is for foraging, but bees love shade

Instant replay

Home is the bee, home from the tree

Build it, and they will come

A perfect swarm

One trap catches two swarms . . . at the same time

“A swarm in June . . .” No, make that two

A hive stand fit for a queen . . . or a swarm

My design for a bait hive