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Fun with Figworts, the Sticky Scrophularia

4 years ago

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wild bees and native bees

For healthy bees: Sow seeds, not war

5 years ago

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bee forage

Madia elegans: a crazy pollinator plant

7 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Bee-u-tify flower seeds for bees

8 years ago

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A pair of enemies share a pear

9 years ago

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bee forage

Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

9 years ago

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Just before a nectar dearth, foragers may be extra busy like this honey bee on a blackberry bloom.

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How to recognize a nectar dearth & safeguard your...

9 years ago

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honey bee nutrition

Protein and the hypopharyngeal gland

10 years ago

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Update on bee forage plants

11 years ago

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It’s pink with star-shaped petals . . .

11 years ago

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bee forage • bee habitat

Monday morning myth: no-forage zones

12 years ago

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honey production

Why didn’t I get more honey?

12 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.

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 - forage

Fun with Figworts, the Sticky Scrophularia

For healthy bees: Sow seeds, not war

Madia elegans: a crazy pollinator plant

The week in photos

Bees on a distant bloom

Photos of Autumn Joy sedum

Bee-u-tify flower seeds for bees

A pair of enemies share a pear

Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

How to recognize a nectar dearth & safeguard your...

Protein and the hypopharyngeal gland

Update on bee forage plants

It’s pink with star-shaped petals . . .

Occupy the barren landscape

Monday morning myth: no-forage zones

Why didn’t I get more honey?