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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Cemetery honey, Tennessee style

February 25, 2013

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bee forage • photographs

It’s pink with star-shaped petals . . .

January 22, 2013

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rants

Shame on the photo thieves

August 13, 2012

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Honey bee exuding wax from abdomen. Photo by Debbe Krape.

beeswax • photographs

The best bee butt photo

August 9, 2012

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how to • photographs

How I photograph bees

August 7, 2012

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beekeeping equipment • photographs

Thursday’s bees

June 21, 2012

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apiary creatures • honey bee behavior

Bees vs. mouse: a skeleton tells the story

May 31, 2011

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apiary creatures • miscellaneous musings

Waiting for honey bee drones

April 18, 2011

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apiary creatures • miscellaneous musings

First signs of spring

February 6, 2011

attracting wild pollinators • bee forage • honey

Goldenrod: a fabulous feast for late-summer bee...

August 25, 2010

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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.

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Autumn in the apiary

A wispy water wasp