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New to beekeeping? A novice guide to starting your...

November 28, 2023
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Complete beekeeping kit at Costco

April 15, 2017
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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BroodMinder transmits hive data to your phone

October 20, 2015
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Hives that fell into rot and ruin.
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Hives that fell into rot and ruin

September 21, 2015
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A Langstroth like no other

September 4, 2015
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How to clean wireware

May 3, 2015
24 Comments
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beekeeping equipment • how to

How to build a slatted rack

April 21, 2015
48 Comments
Picture of bee-collected pollen pellets. Pollen substitute does not contain real pollen, but it contains the nutrients bees need.
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Can I collect pollen from a Flow hive?

March 31, 2015
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honey bee management

When can I get honey from my Flow hive?

March 26, 2015
40 Comments
The Valhalla long hive addresses common problems of both bees and beekeepers.
beekeeping equipment

The stunning Valhalla long hive: low, sleek, and...

November 1, 2014
35 Comments
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Many dead bees on screened inner cover: what happened?

October 15, 2013
7 Comments
beekeeping equipment

The great extractor debate: don’t buy one till...

June 27, 2013
54 Comments
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Variations on the hive

June 24, 2013
8 Comments
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How to use a swarm guard

April 15, 2013
18 Comments
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beekeeping equipment • varroa mites

Mite management in large hives

August 28, 2012
22 Comments
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beekeeping equipment

A beer box for bees

June 12, 2012
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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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