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How to make beeswax food wraps step by step

3 years ago

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This is what wax bloom looks like: weird white mold

5 years ago

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The bees hang in festoons during the comb building process. Rusty Burlew

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The 3½ conditions necessary for comb building

7 years ago

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How to make a steam melter for beeswax

8 years ago

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And now . . . normal wax scales

10 years ago

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What is first rinse water?

10 years ago

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Waxing eloquent

11 years ago

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Honey bee exuding wax from abdomen. Photo by Debbe Krape.

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Another rendition of rendering beeswax

11 years ago

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Think extracting is messy? Try melting beeswax

11 years ago

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Why honey doesn’t run out of the comb

12 years ago

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Why is comb honey so expensive?

12 years ago

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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 - beeswax

How to make beeswax food wraps step by step

This is what wax bloom looks like: weird white mold

The 3½ conditions necessary for comb building

The strangest honeycomb ever

How to make a steam melter for beeswax

And now . . . normal wax scales

What is first rinse water?

Waxing eloquent

The best bee butt photo

Another rendition of rendering beeswax

Think extracting is messy? Try melting beeswax

Why honey doesn’t run out of the comb

How to make starter strips

Why is comb honey so expensive?