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English for beekeepers

Beekeeping vocabulary: the best beekeepers get the...

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What I don’t know about bees would fill volumes

2 years ago
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beekeepers

Overcome wintertime beekeeping worries with a good...

3 years ago
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An orange-handled bee brush. Always use a bee brush carefully
beekeepers

Are Women Better Beekeepers?

4 years ago
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writing and blogging

The men and women of beekeeping: a survey

5 years ago
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miscellaneous musings

Beekeeping will change you for the worse

5 years ago
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miscellaneous musings

Beekeeping reality: Why does it depend?

5 years ago
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miscellaneous musings

Beekeepers, wild bees, and the happiness of pursuit

6 years ago
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Frame of bees vertical
honey bee management

My advice for new beekeepers

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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A song of the bees

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee stories

Bees in an icebox

9 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
publications

Book review | Hives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees...

9 years ago
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miscellaneous musings

Why is beekeeping so hard?

9 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
infrequently asked questions

Top eleven questions of the week

10 years ago
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miscellaneous musings

I was so much smarter then

10 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Bee mail

10 years ago
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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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