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beekeepers

Ethical beekeeping: What is it and who cares?

May 8, 2021

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questions and answers

The dogma daze of beekeeping, part 1

October 28, 2018

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neighbors

How safe is your hive from vandals?

March 28, 2014

28 Comments

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

bee stories

A tale of two neighbors

July 31, 2013

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urban beekeeping

Why do I feel like “Dear Abby?”

April 12, 2013

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stings

Allergy or just scary looking?

March 11, 2013

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bees in the news

The continuing saga of Signal Mountain honey bees

January 11, 2013

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neighbors • urban beekeeping

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 - neighbors

Ethical beekeeping: What is it and who cares?

The dogma daze of beekeeping, part 1

How safe is your hive from vandals?

A tale of two neighbors

Seattle sleuth

Why do I feel like “Dear Abby?”

Allergy or just scary looking?

The continuing saga of Signal Mountain honey bees

Out of sight, out of mind

A bull in the beeyard

Thy neighbors’ bees