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The first 11 days of a worker bee’s life: egg...

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Why do my hives smell like meat?

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
how to • physics for beekeepers

Shaking larvae from their beds

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
miscellaneous musings • pesticides

Science and HoneyBeeSuite

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
English for beekeepers • queen rearing

Wednesday wordphile: grafting

12 years ago
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One way to reduce hive moisture in spring is to trap and remove some of the drones. I feed these to my chickens.
beekeeping equipment • honey bee management

The best way to reduce hive moisture in early spring

13 years ago
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bee biology

Honey bee eggs in the brood nest

13 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology • pesticides • urban beekeeping

Water collection by honey bees

13 years ago
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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
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  • Louisiana
  • Maine
  • Mississippi
  • Missouri
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  • 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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