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What blooms in your September garden?

4 years ago
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pollinator habitat

How does your garden grow?

6 years ago
28 Comments
gardening for bees • how to

How to make a straw-bale pollinator garden

6 years ago
11 Comments
attracting wild pollinators

Fifteen ways to attract pollinators to your yard

10 years ago
6 Comments
attracting wild pollinators • bee forage • how to

How to attract bees to your garden

10 years ago
3 Comments
attracting wild pollinators • bee forage • pollen

Native bee forage: bird’s eyes

10 years ago
3 Comments
attracting wild pollinators • bee forage

Five favorite plants for the bee garden

10 years ago
5 Comments
attracting wild pollinators • bee forage • honey

Goldenrod: a late-summer feast for the bees

11 years ago
11 Comments
infrequently asked questions • plant-pollinator mutualisms • pollination

Pollinators and vegetable gardens

11 years ago
4 Comments
attracting wild pollinators • wild bees and native bees

Pollinator-friendly plants

11 years ago
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Bees are more than a hobby; they are a life study, in many respects a mirror of our own society.

—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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