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Honey bees do many things well, but they are useless for sonication (buzz pollination).
bee biology

Sonication: why honey bees cannot buzz pollinate

6 months ago
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pollination

Two Pollination Myths You Shouldn’t Believe

10 months ago
13 Comments
pollination

The special way bees and flowers help each other

1 year ago
19 Comments
pollination

Incomplete pollination and why it matters

3 years ago
6 Comments
quiz

Many types of pollination: take the quiz

4 years ago
10 Comments
pollination

How bees transfer pollen between flowers

5 years ago
23 Comments
Wild-black-raspberries-2a
pollination

Who pollinates wild black raspberries?

7 years ago
53 Comments
Moose with leaves in antlers.
pollination

Do moose pollinate alders?

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
other pollinators

Chocolate pollination: not the job of bees

8 years ago
15 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
pollination

Canola pollination

9 years ago
11 Comments
bees and agriculture • pollination

In through the back door

10 years ago
6 Comments
pollination

Do brussels sprouts need pollination?

10 years ago
17 Comments
bee biology

Why do honey bees need fur?

10 years ago
6 Comments
Fall management: How many bees is enough for successful wintering?
miscellaneous musings • pollination

Things we forget to remember

10 years ago
11 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
pollination

Daffodil seeds are easy to get

11 years ago
13 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
pollination ecology

Wednesday wordphile: pollination ecology

11 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.”

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State Insects

The non-native European Honey Bee is the state insect of:

  • Arkansas
  • Georgia
  • Kansas
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  • 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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