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What history tells us about hive ventilation

10 years ago

ventilation

Summer ventilation increases honey yield

10 years ago

honey bee behavior • ventilation

Why do bees collect on the bottom board?

10 years ago

beekeeping equipment • wintering

An update on “How I overwintered ten out of...

10 years ago

beekeeping equipment

Should the number of frames in each box be the same?

11 years ago

beekeeping equipment

Slatted racks: how should the slats be arranged?

11 years ago

beekeeping equipment

Why unpainted hives are a bad idea

11 years ago

beekeeping equipment • how to • ventilation

How to make a moisture quilt for a Langstroth hive

11 years ago

honey bee management • wintering

Bees benefit from an energy conservation professional

11 years ago

ventilation

Ventilation in a hot & humid climate

11 years ago

honey bee management • ventilation • wintering

Are your honey bees ready for winter?

11 years ago

honey bee management • ventilation

Bearding is often confused with swarming

11 years ago

beekeeping equipment • ventilation

Ventilation Part 4: The summer Langstroth hive

11 years ago

beekeeping equipment • ventilation

Ventilation Part 3: Warré hives take ventilation...

11 years ago

beekeeping equipment • honey bee management • ventilation

Ventilation Part 2: Special considerations

11 years ago

bee biology • beekeeping equipment • ventilation

Ventilation Part 1: A hive is not a tree

11 years ago

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.

Update! 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!