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honey bee management • queen bees

Can’t find your queen? Are you queenless or...

June 22, 2012
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • how to • making increase

How to make an overnight split

May 29, 2012
62 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeepers • guest posts

The biggest threat to bees today . . .

March 20, 2012
11 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
photographs

In service to her majesty

August 25, 2011
2 Comments
You bees don't care if you put additional supers on top of or beneath the other honey supers.
comb honey production • honey bee management

Should I add a new super on top or underneath?

July 19, 2011
53 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior • queen bees

Two queens in one hive

July 8, 2011
47 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • how to • wintering

How to over-winter a nuc

June 29, 2011
17 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • how to • queen bees

How to keep queen bees in reserve

June 28, 2011
65 Comments
honey bee behavior • swarming

One trap catches two swarms . . . at the same time

June 25, 2011
7 Comments
How to manage bees for section honey. Maja Dumat
queen bees

Never trust a queen to be in the right place

June 18, 2011
13 Comments
bee biology

Bees of a different color

June 12, 2011
15 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
queen rearing

Queen rearing vs queen breeding

June 11, 2011
9 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
miscellaneous musings

Playing hide and seek with a queen . . . or two

June 7, 2011
6 Comments
honey bee management • how to • making increase

Splitting the top-bar hive with a shook swarm

June 3, 2011
23 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management

What is a trap-out and how does it work?

June 2, 2011
14 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
queen rearing

Queen rearing methods

May 30, 2011
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Bee Wise

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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