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As pollinators, hummingbirds work quickly and efficiently, visiting many flowers in a short time. Here, a hummingbird and a bumble bee work the flowers.
other pollinators

The truth about hummingbird pollinators: are they...

August 31, 2023
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Good-news bees are yellow hover flies in disguise.
other pollinators

Good-news bees: more than a colorful buzz in the blooms

April 15, 2023
8 Comments
The Bee Inspired Garden welcomes pollinators of all types.
gardening for bees

The Bee Inspired Garden: spectacular blooms for bee...

April 8, 2023
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publications

Get a free subscription to 2 Million Blossoms!

November 18, 2019
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wild bees and native bees

Who’s that pollinating my garden?

July 13, 2019
12 Comments
miscellaneous musings

Beekeepers, wild bees, and the happiness of pursuit

July 18, 2017
20 Comments
A healthy male mason bee sipping nectar from Vinca minor. Photo © Rusty Burlew
mason bees

Mason bees actually sting, kind of

April 22, 2016
39 Comments
Mexican-hat
comb honey • miscellaneous musings

Try-its: what worked and what didn’t

August 17, 2015
36 Comments
Blueberries
other pollinators

Pollinators on the night shift

May 18, 2015
12 Comments
Drop-straws-into-tubes
bee rescue • pollinator habitat

Do large tubes yield extra-large mason bees?

April 11, 2015
25 Comments
gardening for bees • how to

How to make a straw-bale pollinator garden

March 19, 2015
11 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
wild bees and native bees

A honey bee, not

March 5, 2015
4 Comments
bee forage

Winter aconite attracts pollinators

February 20, 2015
2 Comments
Moose with leaves in antlers.
pollination

Do moose pollinate alders?

February 10, 2015
8 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
muddled thinking

The truth about honey bee decline

December 28, 2014
15 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
wild bees and native bees

A pair of bees

December 4, 2014
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

Bee-yond Bees

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.

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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