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Three hives where the varroa drawers were pulled out by rats.

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Who visits your bee hive at night?

6 years ago

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Colony postmortem: a glistening pile of abdomens

7 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Stealing honey: bee-on-bee robbery

8 years ago

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Honey bee: It’s what’s for dinner

9 years ago

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Italian mob takes down a wasp

9 years ago

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Bear crossing

10 years ago

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Bumble burger

10 years ago

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A bear with table manners

11 years ago

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Vandals in the beeyard

11 years ago

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Danger in the borage

11 years ago

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The allure of decapitation

11 years ago

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How to stop robbing honey bees

12 years ago

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The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. This book started zillions of people on their path to beekeeping. If you haven't read it, you should.

QueenSpotting: Meet the Remarkable Queen Bee and Discover the Drama at the Heart of the Hive by Hilary Kearney. You have to be a scrooge not to love this book. It even includes 48 queenspotting challenges.

The Bees in Your Backyard by Wilson & Carril. If you have any interest at all in the "other bees," you need this book. These are the bees we need to save.

Manuka: The biography of an extraordinary honey by Cliff van Eaton. The discovery of manuka honey and its medicinal properties.

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 - predators

Rats as honey bee predators

Who visits your bee hive at night?

Colony postmortem: a glistening pile of abdomens

The week in photos

Stealing honey: bee-on-bee robbery

Honey bee: It’s what’s for dinner

Italian mob takes down a wasp

Bear crossing

Bumble burger

A bear with table manners

Vandals in the beeyard

Flies with a wicked thirst

Danger in the borage

The allure of decapitation

The birds and the bees

How to stop robbing honey bees