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Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?

2 years ago

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Kudzu vine in flower, one possible source of purple honey.

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Kudzu: the weird dark secret of purple honey?

11 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Honey bee forage: black locust

11 years ago

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Is tree honey slow to granulate?

12 years ago

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Apiforestation is bringing back local honey. Flickr photo by moonlightbulb/Selena N.B.H.

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The pie trip: one for the road

12 years ago

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Carrot honey . . . really!

12 years ago

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Flying Bee Ranch gets a soaring A

12 years ago

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English for beekeepers • varietal honey

Book review: Honeybee by Marina Marchese

12 years ago

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Cemetery honey

12 years ago

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What about the other 125 species of maple?

12 years ago

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The allure of bigleaf maple honey

12 years ago

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Thixotropic honey gels in the comb

13 years ago

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Buckwheat: a casualty of American agriculture

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.

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 - varietal honey

Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?

Kudzu: the weird dark secret of purple honey?

Honey bee forage: black locust

Is tree honey slow to granulate?

The pie trip: one for the road

Carrot honey . . . really!

Flying Bee Ranch gets a soaring A

Wednesday wordphile: terroir

Tamarisk honey: a dark secret

Book review: Honeybee by Marina Marchese

Honey so bland it’s boring

Cemetery honey

What about the other 125 species of maple?

The allure of bigleaf maple honey

Thixotropic honey gels in the comb

Buckwheat: a casualty of American agriculture