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A shortage of pollen for bees

8 years ago

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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

8 years ago

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Reminder: pollen is not nectar

9 years ago

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Honey bee forage: Siberian squill

9 years ago

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These bees have white hourglasses stenciled on their thoraces.

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Hourglass bees

9 years ago

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Do honey bees pollinate wheat?

10 years ago

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Does pink pollen make pink honey?

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Yellow rain: but whose bees did it?

10 years ago

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Count down till winter

10 years ago

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Pollen tramps I have known: Isabella

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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

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

Bumble bee on piggyback plant

Do honey bees pollinate wheat?

Does pink pollen make pink honey?

Yellow rain: but whose bees did it?

Count down till winter

Pollen tramps I have known: Isabella