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Honey bee drinking from a hose bibb. Rusty Burlew
water for bees

Bees and water: the ladies drink for free

11 months ago
12 Comments
feeding bees

An ancient marine tea service for thirsty bees

6 years ago
8 Comments
feeding bees

A non-threatening water source for bees

6 years ago
37 Comments
Paul-Packbier-water-lily
bee biology

The Bee-Thirsty: a mini wet-vac for bees

8 years ago
3 Comments
Guttation-on-a-grape-leaf
bee forage

Xylem sap for honey bees

8 years ago
15 Comments
A bee watering dish made from sea glass. Andrew Graham
feeding bees

Sea glass bee watering dish

8 years ago
6 Comments
Marbles-in-water-for-bees
feeding bees

A marble bar for bees

8 years ago
31 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior

Favorite watering holes

9 years ago
11 Comments
honey bee nutrition

Bee Creek

9 years ago
2 Comments
honey bee management • predators

Nectar dearth and summer stress

10 years ago
31 Comments
how to • water for bees

See an innovative and stunning water feature for...

10 years ago
11 Comments
bee feces

Honey bee dysentery and water

11 years ago
60 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey production

Drought and the water content of nectar

11 years ago
2 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee management • ventilation

Beekeeping in the dog days of summer

11 years ago
14 Comments
Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
honey bee behavior • photographs

Out for a drink

11 years ago
12 Comments
Bee drinking from a slimy water source. Pixabay
honey bee nutrition

Honey bees love that dirty water, but why?

11 years ago
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Go to the bee, thou poet: consider her ways and be wise.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Bees are more than a hobby; they are a life study, in many respects a mirror of our own society.

—William Longgood

Why Honey Bee is Two Words

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

State Insects

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.

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