Tag - bee behavior

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

absconding

Absconding: when your bees move on

9 years ago

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propolis

Housekeeping, honey bee style

10 years ago

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honey bee behavior

A reader’s questions answered

11 years ago

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honey bee behavior • ventilation

Why do bees collect on the bottom board?

12 years ago

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honey bee behavior • pollen

Bee with bi-pollen disorder?

12 years ago

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honey bee behavior • miscellaneous musings • rants

Cell phones and bees: hang up and forage!

12 years ago

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Evenly spaced bees washboarding on the side of a hive. Rusty Burlew

honey bee behavior • video

Washboarding bees arockin’ and alickin’

13 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.

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.

Tag - bee behavior

Absconding: when your bees move on

Packin’ propolis

Honey bee kneading elder bark

Housekeeping, honey bee style

A reader’s questions answered

Why do bees collect on the bottom board?

Bee with bi-pollen disorder?

Cell phones and bees: hang up and forage!

Washboarding bees arockin’ and alickin’