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Hexagonal comb cells have fascinated mankind from the beginning.
bee biology

How honey bees build perfect & practical six-sided...

November 30, 2022
24 Comments
Burr comb full of honey: I found these lovely columns of comb honey in a mountain camp feeder that I forgot to remove, a yummy mistake. Customers love the weird shapes because they are unfamiliar and beautiful. Rusty Burlew
comb honey

Mussing in the kitchen with honeycomb

May 17, 2020
35 Comments
honeycomb

The difference between honeycomb & honey cone is a...

November 7, 2019
22 Comments
comb honey

Making comb honey should be simple and fun

February 15, 2018
28 Comments
comb honey

Best advice: remove wax moth larvae from your comb...

September 4, 2017
39 Comments
honey

Aqua-green honey for your dining pleasure

July 30, 2017
30 Comments
You can kill wax moth larvae, as well as adults and eggs, by freezing honeycombs.
honey bee threats

Secrets to freezing wax moth eggs: your results may...

April 7, 2017
35 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honeycomb

The strangest honeycomb ever

October 31, 2015
28 Comments
writing and blogging

Teeth, tombs, or waffle cones?

October 10, 2013
9 Comments
urban beekeeping

Seattle sleuth

June 16, 2013
9 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology • beeswax

Waxing eloquent

September 4, 2012
8 Comments
An orange-handled bee brush. Always use a bee brush carefully
honey bee management • honey production • how to

The secret to brushing bees safely

September 3, 2012
10 Comments
Darkened brood comb. PIxabay image by RPN
bee biology

Why do brood combs turn black?

March 25, 2012
32 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee myths • predators

Freeze your frames to kill wax moths

October 3, 2011
24 Comments
honey production • how to

Crushing and straining . . . and moaning

September 8, 2011
19 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honeycomb

Why honey doesn’t run out of the comb

May 25, 2011
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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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