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Protected: Population dynamics after a swarm

April 21, 2013

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One that got away

June 14, 2012

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A beer box for bees

June 12, 2012

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muddled thinking • swarming

To gleefully bludgeon a beemudgeon

May 23, 2012

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spring management • swarming

The catch-22 of beekeeping

May 22, 2012

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guest posts • honey bee management • how to • pollination ecology

A reader’s questions answered

May 5, 2012

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miscellaneous musings

Beekeeping myths, half-truths, and rumors

April 12, 2012

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How to use the famous Demaree method of swarm control

March 11, 2012

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How to open the brood nest

March 5, 2012

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Swarm sense

February 28, 2012

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spring management

How to checkerboard a hive

February 24, 2012

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Warning: Checkerboarding shouldn't be done in the brood nest.

honey bee behavior • spring management • swarming

Checkerboarding: the X-files of beekeeping

February 22, 2012

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honey bee behavior • spring management • swarming

Did the bees find their keeper?

February 12, 2012

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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.