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writing and blogging

Much to celebrate: Honey Bee Suite is 10 and counting

2 years ago

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writing and blogging

Eight candles and a Merry Christmas, too!

4 years ago

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beekeepers • writing and blogging

A Merry Thanksgiving To You from Honey Bee Suite

4 years ago

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English for beekeepers

Have more than one bee? Add an s.

5 years ago

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writing and blogging

Honey Bee Suite is six!

6 years ago

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rants • writing and blogging

A letter to sticky-fingered beekeepers

7 years ago

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writing and blogging

Happy Birthday, Honey Bee Suite!

7 years ago

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miscellaneous musings • writing and blogging

Logic-based beekeeping

7 years ago

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miscellaneous musings

The parralel’s of diksion, speling, an grammer

10 years ago

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miscellaneous musings

End of the year tale: how I write HoneyBeeSuite

11 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.”

—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!