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Beekeeping vocabulary: the best beekeepers get the...

2 years ago

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writing and blogging

What I don’t know about bees would fill volumes

3 years ago

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Once I remembered why I kept bees and decided beekeeping was not a competitive sport, I was able to shrink the apiary.

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To become the best beekeeper, learn it’s not a...

3 years ago

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Overcome wintertime beekeeping worries with a good...

4 years ago

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An orange-handled bee brush. Always use a bee brush carefully

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Are Women Better Beekeepers?

5 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

6 years ago

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miscellaneous musings

Beekeeping reality: Why does it depend?

6 years ago

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miscellaneous musings

Beekeepers, wild bees, and the happiness of pursuit

6 years ago

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honey bee management

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

9 years ago

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miscellaneous musings

Why is beekeeping so hard?

10 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

infrequently asked questions

I was so much smarter then

10 years ago

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This book started zillions of people on their path to beekeeping. If you haven't read it, you should.

QueenSpotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive by Hilary Kearney. You have to be a scrooge not to love this book. It even includes 48 queenspotting challenges.

The Bees in Your Backyard by Wilson & Carril. If you have any interest at all in the "other bees," you need this book. These are the bees we need to save.

Manuka: The biography of an extraordinary honey by Cliff van Eaton. The discovery of manuka honey and its medicinal properties.

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 - beekeepers

Beekeeping vocabulary: the best beekeepers get the...

What I don’t know about bees would fill volumes

To become the best beekeeper, learn it’s not a...

Overcome wintertime beekeeping worries with a good...

Are Women Better Beekeepers?

The men and women of beekeeping: a survey

Beekeeping will change you for the worse

Beekeeping reality: Why does it depend?

Beekeepers, wild bees, and the happiness of pursuit

My advice for new beekeepers

A song of the bees

Bees in an icebox

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

Why is beekeeping so hard?

Top eleven questions of the week

I was so much smarter then