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Getting started: the cost of beekeeping

10 months ago
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Foundation with crud. Mark Wilson.
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What crud is this?

7 years ago
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Old-frames
beekeeping equipment

Who reuses old frames?

7 years ago
116 Comments
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Thirty-one gifts for beekeepers

9 years ago
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Twenty-five holiday trinkets for beekeepers

10 years ago
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How many hives to start?

10 years ago
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Through a screen darkly

10 years ago
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beekeeping equipment

Even painted boxes warp

11 years ago
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How to use an eke in a bee hive

11 years ago
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beekeeping equipment • English for beekeepers

Wednesday wordphile: eke

11 years ago
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A hive stand fit for a queen . . . or a swarm

11 years ago
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beekeeping equipment • how to • queen rearing

How to mark a queen

11 years ago
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beekeeping equipment

Escape boards: Separating bees from honey

12 years ago
23 Comments
beekeeping equipment • ventilation

Ventilation Part 4: The summer Langstroth hive

12 years ago
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English for beekeepers

Bee box terminology: what to call all the sizes

12 years ago
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

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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
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  • 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.

Update! 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!

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