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diseases

Repeat after me: Nosema does not cause dysentery

February 14, 2020
20 Comments
questions and answers

The dogma daze of beekeeping, part 1

October 28, 2018
15 Comments
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bee feces • honey bee behavior • physics for beekeepers

How the inverse square law governs the distribution of...

November 14, 2016
60 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology

Clearly a waste: the bee digestive system

August 28, 2015
16 Comments
bee feces

Bee poop on flowers: the best in sanitary practices?

April 11, 2013
11 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
photographs • wild bees and native bees

Bumble bee defecation

January 29, 2013
13 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee feces • neighbors

Yellow rain: but whose bees did it?

November 28, 2012
17 Comments
bee feces

Honey bee dysentery and water

October 2, 2012
60 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology

Fecal retention in bee larvae

June 28, 2012
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths

Monday morning myth: no-forage zones

November 14, 2011
3 Comments
Bees, like this honey bee, are both insects and animals. In fact, all insects are animals. David Cappaert.
bee biology

Now speak the truth: is honey actually poop or vomit?

March 14, 2011
58 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
diseases • honey bee behavior

A great day for bees: down with honey bee dysentery

January 16, 2011
2 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee feces

Readers: How do you remove bee poop stains from...

January 3, 2011
2 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology • wintering

A warm, dry day is good for winter bees

November 3, 2010
9 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee feces • bee stories • urban beekeeping

Mischievous proliferous: the scoop on bee poop

August 9, 2010
22 Comments
Sticky yellow bee droppings are a sign of healty bees.
bee feces

Sticky yellow bee droppings are an excellent thing

June 10, 2010
48 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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