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Winter patties or pollen patties: which is best?

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Should you feed pollen supplement in spring?

2 years ago

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Brewer’s yeast or baker’s yeast for bees?

6 years ago

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Should I feed pollen substitute to my bees?

8 years ago

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The pollen from the top-mounted trap is very clean and free of hive debris. Rusty Burlew

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Pollen patties for bees: when to feed and why?

9 years ago

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Recipe for dry pollen substitute

10 years ago

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What vitamins should I give to my bees?

12 years ago

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How to make protein-enriched candy boards

12 years ago

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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 - pollen substitute

Winter patties or pollen patties: which is best?

Should you feed pollen supplement in spring?

Brewer’s yeast or baker’s yeast for bees?

AFB-fortified pollen

A shortage of pollen for bees

Should I feed pollen substitute to my bees?

Pollen patties for bees: when to feed and why?

Recipe for dry pollen substitute

What vitamins should I give to my bees?

How to make protein-enriched candy boards