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wild bees and native bees

Who’s that pollinating my garden?

4 years ago
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miscellaneous musings

Beekeepers, wild bees, and the happiness of pursuit

6 years ago
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A healthy male mason bee sipping nectar from Vinca minor. Photo © Rusty Burlew
mason bees

Mason bees actually sting, kind of

7 years ago
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Mexican-hat
comb honey • miscellaneous musings

Try-its: what worked and what didn’t

7 years ago
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Blueberries
other pollinators

Pollinators on the night shift

8 years ago
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Drop-straws-into-tubes
bee rescue • pollinator habitat

Do large tubes yield extra-large mason bees?

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
gardening for bees • how to

How to make a straw-bale pollinator garden

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
wild bees and native bees

A honey bee, not

8 years ago
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bee forage

Winter aconite attracts pollinators

8 years ago
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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
muddled thinking

The truth about honey bee decline

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
wild bees and native bees

A pair of bees

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

Strung out on pollen

8 years ago
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Wool carder bee examining a lemon balm flower. © Rusty Burlew.
wild bees and native bees

A woolcarder bee peers inside a flower

8 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
wild bees and native bees

Dropping in for a visit

9 years ago
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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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