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The bumble bee has frayed wings, likely due to old age. She is near the end of life and nothing can be done to reverse that.

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How to help a bee in distress

5 years ago

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It’s time to monitor bumble bees

5 years ago

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The dazzling black-tailed bumble bee

6 years ago

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Bumble bee answers every beekeeper needs

6 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Officially endangered: the rusty-patched bumble bee

6 years ago

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Bumble bee on a dahlia in September

7 years ago

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Sunflowers transition from bees to birds

8 years ago

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What’s wrong with this picture?

8 years ago

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Squatters in the attic

8 years ago

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Bombus vosnesenskii

9 years ago

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It’s time for pollinator habitat

9 years ago

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A journalist’s bumble

9 years ago

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A black and white early spring bumble bee on pink claytonia, a woodland plant. Rusty Burlew

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Where do bumble bees go in winter?

9 years ago

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Bumble bee on goldenrod

9 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 - bumble bees

How to help a bee in distress

It’s time to monitor bumble bees

The dazzling black-tailed bumble bee

Bumble bee answers every beekeeper needs

Officially endangered: the rusty-patched bumble bee

Why so many dead bumble bees?

Bumble bee on a dahlia in September

Sunflowers transition from bees to birds

What’s wrong with this picture?

Squatters in the attic

Bombus vosnesenskii

It’s time for pollinator habitat

A journalist’s bumble

Where do bumble bees go in winter?

Bumble bee on goldenrod

Bumble burger