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queen bees

Make it easy to find your queen bee: never struggle...

1 year ago

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bee biology

The Detritus of Brood Rearing: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

5 years ago

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feeding bees

A shortage of pollen for bees

9 years ago

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guest posts • honey bee management • how to • pollination ecology

Pesticide residues in brood comb

12 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

honey bee management

Drowning in drones

12 years ago

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how to • queen rearing

How to start a queen in a two-frame nuc

12 years ago

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beekeeping equipment

Why buy eight-frame hive equipment?

13 years ago

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bee biology

Temperature regulation in a winter cluster

13 years ago

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diseases • parasites

Tropilaelaps clareae: another scary creature for bees

13 years ago

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honey bee management • varroa mites

Reduce varroa mites by culling honey bee drones

13 years ago

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bee biology • photographs

Mixed brood comb

13 years ago

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A queen bee on a frame of bees. Find your queen bee by quickly scanning the frames.

how to • queen bees

How to find your queen bee

13 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 - brood

Make it easy to find your queen bee: never struggle...

The Detritus of Brood Rearing: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

A shortage of pollen for bees

Managing packages and swarms

Faster than the speed of mite

Pesticide residues in brood comb

Drowning in drones

How to start a queen in a two-frame nuc

Why buy eight-frame hive equipment?

Temperature regulation in a winter cluster

Tropilaelaps clareae: another scary creature for bees

Reduce varroa mites by culling honey bee drones

Mixed brood comb

How to find your queen bee