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Oregano is one of the mint plants bees love.
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Mint plants bees love despite what people say

February 27, 2013
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Crimson and clover

February 26, 2013
Japanese knotweed is highly invasive but produces lots of honey.
bee forage

Japanese knotweed: the surprising source of quality...

August 30, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
photographs

Danger in the borage

July 21, 2012
beekeepers • guest posts

Fluffy bums and fault lines

June 24, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Bees on a dairy farm

June 6, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Honey bee forage: vine maple

May 11, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
photographs • wild bees and native bees

Bumble bee on cherry laurel

May 9, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

Honey bee forage: black locust

April 28, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
urban beekeeping

How many bees fit in a city?

April 19, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Planting for honey bees

March 16, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Honey bee forage: bee bee tree

February 26, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
miscellaneous musings

The day the trees fell

January 25, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Bees from coast to coast agree . . .

November 19, 2011
bee forage • wild bees and native bees

Tiny bee builds flower-petal nests

August 29, 2011
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bee forage • wild bees and native bees

Native bee forage: California lilac

July 29, 2011
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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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