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Tolmiea pollen: From splendid to spectacular

2 years ago
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An evolutionary mystery: the taste and color of pollen

2 years ago
14 Comments
A male leafcutting bee foraging on goldenrod. Whereas managed honey bees can be fed pollen supplements, wild bees must go without.
honey bee nutrition

The honey bee diet requires many amino acids

3 years ago
11 Comments
pollination

How bees transfer pollen between flowers

3 years ago
21 Comments
Bee on basil. The flowers are gone.
honey bee nutrition

The flowers are gone, but why?

4 years ago
23 Comments
bee biology

What are winter bees and what do they do?

4 years ago
52 Comments
JHoney bee with pollen
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The role of pollen in honey bee nutrition

4 years ago
22 Comments
Bees enjoying the pollen
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Pollen feeders for honey bees

4 years ago
36 Comments
Bumble bee and berry bee share a flower.
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Plays well with others, not

6 years ago
17 Comments
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Bee-u-tify flower seeds for bees

6 years ago
12 Comments
Frame-of-pollen. Bill Hesbach.
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Can a colony collect too much pollen?

6 years ago
27 Comments
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Lemon queen sunflowers for pollinators

6 years ago
22 Comments
bee forage

Bee plant survey results

6 years ago
33 Comments
bee forage

Bee plants and your hardiness zone

6 years ago
7 Comments
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Viper’s bugloss: a top-tier honey bee plant

6 years ago
31 Comments
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A crude post on crude protein

6 years ago
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—William Longgood

Why Honey Bee is Two Words

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.

Update! 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!

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