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When settlers first got to Utah they imported bees and brought them in to help develop and cultivate. Since then, Utah has been known as the beehive state.

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That would be a logical reason for it but remember this is Utah… so no.

Bees have weird place in Mormon lore. The creepy founder created a new name for them in the Book of Mormon “Deseret”.

His successor, Brigham Young, used it as the name of country Mormons tried to establish in the west.

“It represents a theocracy ruled by the church.”

The bee symbolism used in sermons from the 1850s described the godly society the Saints strove to build.

https://byustudies.byu.edu/article/the-symbolism-of-the-beehive-in-latter-day-saint-tradition/

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Wow. That is nuts.

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I had the “Symbols of Manchester” Wikipedia page at the ready to make the point that a bee is a fairly well-known symnbol of industry, but as they say, truth is stranger than fiction.

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that makes sense. thanks for the utah lore

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