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hive stands and structures

Four elegant homemade bee hives

6 years ago

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spring management

When to remove quilt boxes and feeders

6 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

beekeeping equipment

A taylor-made feeder

9 years ago

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honey bee behavior • robbing

Robbing bees on a mission

10 years ago

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feeding bees • physics for beekeepers

Physics for beekeepers: heat transfer in sugar syrup

12 years ago

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wild bees and native bees

Is there a way to feed wild bees?

12 years ago

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essential oils • feeding bees • honey bee nutrition

The secret of bee tea . . . remains a secret

13 years ago

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feeding bees

How to make candy boards (and candy cakes) for bees

13 years ago

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essential oils • feeding bees • honey bee management • how to

How to prevent moldy syrup in bee feeders

14 years ago

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beekeeping equipment • feeding bees

Mountain camp feeder: use for winter feeding only

14 years ago

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beekeeping equipment • feeding bees • honey bee management

What type of honey bee feeder is best?

14 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.