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Comb honey and smokers

8 years ago

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How to make bees go through a queen excluder

11 years ago

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essential oils • feeding bees

Will cream of tartar harm my honey bees?

11 years ago

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“Stocking stuffers” for your favorite beekeeper

11 years ago

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attracting wild pollinators • bee forage • essential oils

Anise oil for bees: they will follow it anywhere

11 years ago

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essential oils • feeding bees • honey bee nutrition

The secret of bee tea . . . remains a secret

11 years ago

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varroa mites

Grease patties help control winter mites

12 years ago

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feeding bees

Essential oils and honey bee health

12 years ago

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Why feed sugar syrup to honey bees?

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.

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!

Should You Destroy Extra Queen Cells?Yes or No?

Tag - essential oils

Comb honey and smokers

How to make bees go through a queen excluder

Will cream of tartar harm my honey bees?

“Stocking stuffers” for your favorite beekeeper

Anise oil for bees: they will follow it anywhere

The secret of bee tea . . . remains a secret

Grease patties help control winter mites

Winter feeding of honey bees

Essential oils and honey bee health

How to use a baggie feeder

Why feed sugar syrup to honey bees?