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bee forage

Lemon queen sunflowers for pollinators

February 12, 2015

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bee forage

Bee plants and your hardiness zone

February 2, 2015

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bee forage

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

January 11, 2015

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honey bee nutrition

A crude post on crude protein

December 21, 2014

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

honey production

Joe’s mysterious honey

December 17, 2014

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feeding bees

A shortage of pollen for bees

December 7, 2014

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honey bee nutrition

Plant a flower, answer a survey

November 28, 2014

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bee forage

Winter pollen for bees: snowdrops, crocus, and squill

October 12, 2014

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pollen

Bee on a corn tassel

June 21, 2014

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spring management

Reminder: pollen is not nectar

March 17, 2014

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bee forage

Honey bee forage: Siberian squill

March 14, 2014

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These bees have white hourglasses stenciled on their thoraces.

bee biology

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

February 26, 2014

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bee forage • wild bees and native bees

This is why honey bees never pollinate wheat

March 24, 2013

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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

Lemon queen sunflowers for pollinators

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