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A small honey harvest can be disappointing, and many things can go wrong.
honey production

13 reasons for small honey harvests (& how to...

June 4, 2023
13 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment

A Langstroth like no other

September 4, 2015
35 Comments
Honey bees walking on comb. You can't force them to make honey.
honey production

Why won’t my bees store honey?

August 5, 2015
46 Comments
Honey bees on a frame
honey bee management

Beekeeping with a purpose

January 6, 2015
15 Comments
Your bees know winter is coming long before it arrives. Beehives in fallen leaves means temperatures will soon drop.
honey bee management

It’s June: winter is coming and your bees know it

June 23, 2014
13 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • rants

Tracking Hive Tracks

February 21, 2014
20 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
guest posts • varroa mites

A fight with the varroa mite in New Zealand

July 1, 2012
16 Comments
honey bee management • queen bees

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

June 22, 2012
64 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
how to • video

How to move a hive any distance

April 1, 2012
64 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeepers • guest posts

The biggest threat to bees today . . .

March 20, 2012
11 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • swarming

Swarm sense

February 28, 2012
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

July 20, 2011
66 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeeping equipment • miscellaneous musings

Beehive records: in praise of paper and pencil

May 5, 2011
9 Comments
Snow scene: Are your honey bees ready for winter?
honey bee management • ventilation • wintering

Are your honey bees ready for winter?

September 22, 2010
Confusion about escape boards: The side with the big hole goes up.
beekeeping equipment

Confusion about escape boards: which side up?

August 17, 2010
16 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology • honey bee management

The cyclic nature of honey bee populations

July 23, 2010
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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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