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Footwear for beekeepers: What’s your favorite?

4 years ago
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A swarm capture from the dark side

4 years ago
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The night moves of a once dead bee

4 years ago
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mason bees

Mason bees actually sting, kind of

5 years ago
37 Comments
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Stings of winter bees

5 years ago
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bee stories

Stung from behind

6 years ago
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bee stories

Stickier than honey

6 years ago
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muddled thinking • rants

The fear of bees

7 years ago
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pesticides • queen rearing • stings

When the weak become strong

7 years ago
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bee stories • stings

The suspense of the sting

7 years ago
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Sting relief

7 years ago
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bee stories • how to

How to get stung 22 times in one place

7 years ago
28 Comments
bee stories

My spider queen

8 years ago
29 Comments
honey bee behavior

Why do my bees turn nasty when I kill them?

8 years ago
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bee stories

A sting in winter

8 years ago
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bee stories

Revenge of the cattle dog

9 years ago
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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.

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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