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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment

A Langstroth like no other

8 years ago
34 Comments
Honey bees walking on comb. You can't force them to make honey.
honey production

Why won’t my bees store honey?

8 years ago
46 Comments
Honey bees on a frame
honey bee management

Beekeeping with a purpose

8 years ago
15 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management

Winter is coming and your bees know it

9 years ago
13 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • rants

Tracking Hive Tracks

9 years ago
20 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
guest posts • varroa mites

A fight with the varroa mite in New Zealand

11 years ago
16 Comments
honey bee management • queen bees

Can’t find your queen? Are you queenless or...

11 years ago
64 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
how to • video

How to move a hive any distance

11 years ago
64 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeepers • guest posts

The biggest threat to bees today . . .

11 years ago
11 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • swarming

Swarm sense

11 years ago
26 Comments
Finding empty honey supers can be disappointing, but don't try to force bees that are not ready to store excess honey.
honey production

The simple truth about your empty honey supers

12 years ago
65 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment • miscellaneous musings

Beehive records: in praise of paper and pencil

12 years ago
9 Comments
Snow scene: Are your honey bees ready for winter?
honey bee management • ventilation • wintering

Are your honey bees ready for winter?

13 years ago
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Confusion about escape boards: The side with the big hole goes up.
beekeeping equipment

Confusion about escape boards: which side up?

13 years ago
16 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology • honey bee management

The cyclic nature of honey bee populations

13 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment • honey bee management • ventilation

Ventilation Part 2: Special considerations

13 years ago
6 Comments

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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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