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Fun with Figworts, the Sticky Scrophularia

4 years ago
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For healthy bees: Sow seeds, not war

5 years ago
30 Comments
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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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The week in photos

8 years ago
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Bumble-bees-on-lemon-queen by Rusty Burlew.
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Bees on a distant bloom

8 years ago
14 Comments
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Photos of Autumn Joy sedum

8 years ago
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Bee-u-tify flower seeds for bees

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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A pair of enemies share a pear

9 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

9 years ago
22 Comments
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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Protein and the hypopharyngeal gland

10 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Update on bee forage plants

11 years ago
11 Comments
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It’s pink with star-shaped petals . . .

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • bee habitat

Occupy the barren landscape

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths

Monday morning myth: no-forage zones

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Why didn’t I get more honey?

12 years ago
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Bee Wise

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

—George Bernard Shaw

Bee-yond Bees

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
  • 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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