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How to keep bees like a scientist

2 years ago
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beeswax

How to make beeswax food wraps step by step

3 years ago
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feeding bees

How to feed stacked nucs in winter

3 years ago
24 Comments
bee rescue

The Price trap-out: no bee left behind

4 years ago
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bee biology

How to identify a honey bee using wing veins

5 years ago
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honey

How to store honey at home

5 years ago
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How should we train the newbees?

5 years ago
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hive placement

Something you need to know: how to hide your beehive

6 years ago
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how to • smoke for bees

How to light a smoker so it stays lit

7 years ago
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A quick winter hive check can be as simple as just walking by and looking for anything unusual.
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Winter hive check: how to help your bees thrive

7 years ago
77 Comments
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How to make no-cook candy boards for wintering bees

7 years ago
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comb honey • how to

How to make value-subtracted honey

7 years ago
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beeswax • how to

How to make a steam melter for beeswax

8 years ago
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How to clean wireware

8 years ago
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beekeeping equipment • how to

How to build a slatted rack

8 years ago
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How to make a straw-bale pollinator garden

8 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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