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Invasive honey plants: are they good for bees?

1 year ago
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Kudzu vine in flower, one possible source of purple honey.
varietal honey

Kudzu: the weird dark secret of purple honey?

11 years ago
62 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

Honey bee forage: black locust

11 years ago
16 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
varietal honey

Is tree honey slow to granulate?

11 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

11 years ago
28 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
varietal honey

Carrot honey . . . really!

11 years ago
10 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
beekeepers • varietal honey

Flying Bee Ranch gets a soaring A

11 years ago
1 Comment
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
English for beekeepers • varietal honey

Wednesday wordphile: terroir

11 years ago
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Tamarisk honey: a dark secret

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Book review: Honeybee by Marina Marchese

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Honey so bland it’s boring

11 years ago
12 Comments
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Cemetery honey

11 years ago
15 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

What about the other 125 species of maple?

11 years ago
4 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

The allure of bigleaf maple honey

12 years ago
22 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
varietal honey

Thixotropic honey gels in the comb

13 years ago
4 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
bee forage • varietal honey

Buckwheat: a casualty of American agriculture

13 years ago
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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.”

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State Insects

The non-native European Honey Bee is the state insect of:

  • Arkansas
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  • North Carolina
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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.

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