Tag - urban beekeeping

Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Book review | Hives in the City: Keeping Honey Bees...

9 years ago

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rants

The big bad dirty environment for honey bees

11 years ago

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bees in the news

Great expectations

11 years ago

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pesticides • rants • urban beekeeping

Pesticide residue in urban honey: yes or no?

12 years ago

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urban beekeeping

More thoughts on urban beekeeping

12 years ago

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hive inspection • honey bee management

Summer in the city: urban hive inspections

12 years ago

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Bees in Brooklyn, NY made "honey" from Maraschino cherry syrup. Deposit Photos

bees in the news • urban beekeeping

Brooklyn bees pig-out on maraschino cherry syrup

13 years ago

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urban beekeeping

BBC News reports on bees in Paris

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.