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Swarm traps won’t cause your bees to swarm

2 years ago

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Things you can catch in a bait hive

6 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Bees in Idaho: a beekeeper’s first swarm

6 years ago

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Home is the bee, home from the tree

8 years ago

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Swarm sequel

9 years ago

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Tincture of queen: how to make the best swarm lure

10 years ago

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Bee sweet and don’t ask me such things!

12 years ago

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A perfect swarm

12 years ago

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

12 years ago

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honey bee behavior • swarming

“A swarm in June . . .” No, make that two

12 years ago

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Sometimes things can go wrong with swarm traps. This one contains a wasp nest.

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Swarm traps can be powerful or no good at all

13 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 - swarm traps

Swarm traps won’t cause your bees to swarm

Things you can catch in a bait hive

Bees in Idaho: a beekeeper’s first swarm

Instant replay

Home is the bee, home from the tree

Swarm sequel

Swarm!

Tincture of queen: how to make the best swarm lure

Bee sweet and don’t ask me such things!

A perfect swarm

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

“A swarm in June . . .” No, make that two

Swarm traps can be powerful or no good at all