Tag - forage

bee forage • varietal honey

What about the other 125 species of maple?

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bee forage • wild bees and native bees

A honey bee forage plant: lovage

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bee forage • wild bees and native bees

Honey bee forage: curlycup gumweed

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honey bee behavior • pollen

Bee with bi-pollen disorder?

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bee forage • honey bee myths

Monday morning myth: honey bees don’t like crimson...

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bee forage

Honey bee forage: hardy kiwi

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English for beekeepers

Wednesday word file: forage

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bee forage • honey bee nutrition • pollen

Honey bee forage: pussy willow

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attracting wild pollinators • bee forage

Russian sage for your pollinator garden

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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!

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