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Queen cells can be a sign of queenlessness.
queen bees

How to recognize a queenless hive: 9 reliable ways

4 months ago
27 Comments
Bees exchange food and information through trophallaxis. Note their extended tongues.
bee biology

Lickety-spit: how bees use trophallaxis to easily...

4 months ago
8 Comments
Here, yellowjackets are lined up on the door to a storage shed, making it difficult to enter. The nest is protected inside the shed.
predators

The ultimate yellowjacket trap is in your trash

8 months ago
31 Comments
queen bees

A virgin queen’s fertility window

1 year ago
35 Comments
wasps

When yellowjacket traps don’t work

1 year ago
20 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior

Honey bee pheromones: common scents

7 years ago
31 Comments
If you need to kill a queen for any reason, consider making her into a swarm lure by soaking her body in alcohol.
queen bees

Tincture of queen: how to make the best swarm lure

10 years ago
26 Comments
bee biology

What is open-brood pheromone?

10 years ago
23 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior

Why do my bees turn nasty when I kill them?

10 years ago
2 Comments
beekeeping equipment • how to • swarming

My design for a bait hive

12 years ago
25 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology

Wednesday word file: footprint pheromone

12 years ago
3 Comments
Sometimes things can go wrong with swarm traps. This one contains a wasp nest.
beekeeping equipment • swarming

Swarm Traps Can Be Powerful Or No Good At All

13 years ago
35 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee biology • swarming

Preventing a swarm is not easy

13 years ago
23 Comments
Smoker alight and ready. Pixabay photo.
beekeeping equipment

Smoker fuels are as varied as beekeepers

13 years ago
16 Comments

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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

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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