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Bee plants and your hardiness zone

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Viper’s bugloss: a top-tier honey bee plant

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A shortage of pollen for bees

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Plant a flower, answer a survey

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

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Reminder: pollen is not nectar

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Honey bee forage: Siberian squill

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These bees have white hourglasses stenciled on their thoraces.

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Hourglass bees: even bees have places they can’t...

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This is why honey bees never pollinate wheat

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Does pink pollen make pink honey?

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This book started zillions of people on their path to beekeeping. If you haven't read it, you should.

QueenSpotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive by Hilary Kearney. You have to be a scrooge not to love this book. It even includes 48 queenspotting challenges.

The Bees in Your Backyard by Wilson & Carril. If you have any interest at all in the "other bees," you need this book. These are the bees we need to save.

Manuka: The biography of an extraordinary honey by Cliff van Eaton. The discovery of manuka honey and its medicinal properties.

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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Bee plant survey results

Bee plants and your hardiness zone

Viper’s bugloss: a top-tier honey bee plant

A crude post on crude protein

Joe’s mysterious honey

AFB-fortified pollen

A shortage of pollen for bees

Plant a flower, answer a survey

Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

Bee on a corn tassel

Reminder: pollen is not nectar

Honey bee forage: Siberian squill

Hourglass bees: even bees have places they can’t...

Bumble bee on piggyback plant

This is why honey bees never pollinate wheat

Does pink pollen make pink honey?