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How to make no-cook candy boards for wintering bees

November 20, 2015

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apiary creatures

Moisture quilts should be dry

October 14, 2014

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How to use a quilt with a candy board

January 27, 2014

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Bees with quilts: spendy but cute

November 17, 2011

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Honey bee quilt show

October 28, 2011

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Preparing a top-bar hive for winter

October 10, 2011

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You need to increase summer ventilation for good honey...

July 7, 2011

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How to make a moisture quilt for a Langstroth hive

January 11, 2011

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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

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.

Tag - moisture quilt

How to make no-cook candy boards for wintering bees

Squatters in the attic

Moisture quilts should be dry

How to use a quilt with a candy board

Tweaking my moisture quilts

Bees with quilts: spendy but cute

Honey bee quilt show

Preparing a top-bar hive for winter

You need to increase summer ventilation for good honey...

How to make a moisture quilt for a Langstroth hive