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Here, yellowjackets are lined up on the door to a storage shed, making it difficult to enter. The nest is protected inside the shed.

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The ultimate yellowjacket trap is in your trash

1 year ago

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wasps

When yellowjacket traps don’t work

2 years ago

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bee forage

Figworts and their sweet surprise: a treasure trove of...

4 years ago

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Lessons from the year of the wasp

4 years ago

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wasps

If you thought swarm traps were for honey bees

6 years ago

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honey bee threats • predators

Bald-faced hornet nests in New York

7 years ago

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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay

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Colony death by yellowjacket attack

8 years ago

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honey bee threats

Wasps aplenty follow a mild winter

8 years ago

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A delicious meal of wasp larvae

8 years ago

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honey bee threats • predators

Italian mob takes down a wasp

9 years ago

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honey bee threats • predators

Protect your bees from autumn wasps

10 years ago

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wasps

Not all wasps are yellowjackets

10 years ago

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Great black wasp

10 years ago

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other pollinators • wasps

The forgotten wasp

10 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.

Tag - wasps

The ultimate yellowjacket trap is in your trash

When yellowjacket traps don’t work

Figworts and their sweet surprise: a treasure trove of...

Making a beeline for lunch

Lessons from the year of the wasp

If you thought swarm traps were for honey bees

Bald-faced hornet nests in New York

Colony death by yellowjacket attack

Wasps aplenty follow a mild winter

A delicious meal of wasp larvae

Italian mob takes down a wasp

Protect your bees from autumn wasps

I’m stuck on you

Not all wasps are yellowjackets

Great black wasp

The forgotten wasp