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wild bees and native bees

For healthy bees: Sow seeds, not war

4 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
wild bees and native bees

Dropping in for a visit

9 years ago
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The waxy surface layer of leaves is similar to the protective surface layer of insects. Soap can break down these layers and make them permeable to water. Flickr photo by Brett Jordan.
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How to kill bees with soapy water: non-toxic but risky

11 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Is there a way to feed wild bees?

12 years ago
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bee forage • wild bees and native bees

Tiny bee builds flower-petal nests

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
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Pollen can carry disease to native bees

12 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
attracting wild pollinators • wild bees and native bees

The real estate market heats up

13 years ago
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Bees and their queen on a honeycomb. Pixabay
plant-pollinator mutualisms • wild bees and native bees

Foraging habits of different types of bees

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

—George Bernard Shaw

Bee-yond Bees

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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