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swarming

Swarm traps won’t cause your bees to swarm

2 years ago
13 Comments
swarming

Although we worry, honey bees are built to last

4 years ago
24 Comments
apiary creatures

Things you can catch in a bait hive

6 years ago
28 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Bees in Idaho: a beekeeper’s first swarm

6 years ago
18 Comments
swarming

My swarm arrived 38 minutes late

6 years ago
54 Comments
honey bee management

Sun is for foraging, but bees love shade

6 years ago
45 Comments
swarming

Instant replay

8 years ago
23 Comments
Swarm-moving-in
swarming

Home is the bee, home from the tree

8 years ago
26 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
swarming

Build it, and they will come

9 years ago
24 Comments
Honey bees do not return in the spring. An assortment of grren and yellow bee hives in an apiary.
honey bee management

Do honey bees leave in winter and return in spring?

10 years ago
39 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
swarming

A perfect swarm

12 years ago
24 Comments
honey bee behavior • swarming

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

12 years ago
7 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior • swarming

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

12 years ago
7 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment

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

12 years ago
1 Comment
beekeeping equipment • how to • swarming

My design for a bait hive

12 years ago
25 Comments

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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

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—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
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  • Maine
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
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  • New Jersey
  • North Carolina
  • Oklahoma
  • South Dakota
  • Tennessee
  • Utah
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  • 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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