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Beekeepers have a responsibility to each other to not let the mites be mites.
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“Let the mites be mites” is no longer an...

6 years ago
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The hard part of beekeeping.
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The hardest part of beekeeping

6 years ago
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beekeepers

Why I don’t like beekeeping all that much

6 years ago
78 Comments
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beekeepers • miscellaneous musings

What are the hard parts of beekeeping?

7 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
gardening for bees

The long path back to nature

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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A beekeeper’s message from sunny Florida

8 years ago
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Bluesky with red-tinged clouds.Sunset in west Georgia. David RobertsonSunset-David-Robertson
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A day in the world around me: a guest post

8 years ago
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comb honey • miscellaneous musings

Try-its: what worked and what didn’t

8 years ago
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Honey-bee-drinking
miscellaneous musings

More than a box of bees

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

When your bees mess with you

9 years ago
17 Comments
miscellaneous musings

Why is beekeeping so hard?

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

Should I keep bees?

10 years ago
23 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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The bee project of Shangri-la

11 years ago
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Fireworks above may affect the hum of a hive.
honey bee behavior

The hum of a happy hive: nothing sounds better

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
miscellaneous musings

Beekeepers come and go

11 years ago
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Why do so many new beekeepers quit. Photo shows two beekeepers examining a frame of bees.
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Why so many new beekeepers quit

12 years ago
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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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