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spring management

An especially early vernal equinox

3 years ago
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feeding bees

How to feed stacked nucs in winter

3 years ago
24 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
diseases

How common is foul brood in honey?

7 years ago
27 Comments
MREs for bees
feeding bees • how to

How to feed bees in freezing weather

8 years ago
48 Comments
feeding bees • how to • wintering

How to use a quilt with a candy board

9 years ago
29 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees

Tea in the honey bee diet

9 years ago
16 Comments
bees in the news

That candy cane glow

10 years ago
4 Comments
Some beekeepers use crushed candy canes as bee feed. Predictably, it makes something that looks like red honey. Pixabay
bees in the news

More red honey: this time from candy canes

10 years ago
14 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees • how to

How to feed crystallized honey

10 years ago
16 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees

Recipe for bee-scrumptious dry pollen substitute

10 years ago
75 Comments
Granulated sugar can be fed to bees as crystals, syrup, or fondant.
feeding bees

How to make fondant for bees from table sugar

10 years ago
75 Comments
Too many bees for the winter months.
bee stories • wintering

Too many bees for the middle of winter

10 years ago
39 Comments
To make a slurry, put granulated sugar in a plastic bag and add water.
feeding bees

Sugar slurry: a feeding option for winter bees

11 years ago
13 Comments
A brood box sliced horizontally to make ekes or feeder rims for mountain camp feeding or baggie feeding.
feeding bees

Mountain Camp feeding: what it is, how to do it

11 years ago
29 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
feeding bees • spring management

Must I feed a new package of bees?

11 years ago
12 Comments
Two signs pointing in opposite directions.Like everyone else, we beekeepers need to make choices based on facts, not emotion.
rants

Trying to communicate with beekeepers is tough

11 years ago
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—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
  • 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.

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