The Endangered Bees
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
This parasite attaches itself to the honey bee and sucks it blood.
What is the Varroa destructor?
Flower nectar is extracted by the bees and gets broken down into simple sugars and stored in the honeycomb.
What is Step 1?
This substance was buried with the pharaohs in their tombs.
What is Honeycomb?
The type of honey with more nutrients.
What is raw honey?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Females.
What is the only gender of honey bees?
These chemicals block pathways in the honey bees' nervous systems, making them unable to feed and eventually die.
What are pesticides?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
Beekeepers harvest it by collecting the honeycomb frames and scraping off the wax cap that bees make to seal off honey in each cell.
What is Step 3?
8 000 years ago in a painting from Spain.
What was the earliest known date of honey's existence?
This type of honey contains no pollen.
What is Filtered Honey?
80% sugar.
What is the percentage of sugar in honey?
Due to this, Honey bees are having to fly farther and work harder to find nectar because most of our wildflowers have been lost.
What is city and agricultural growth?
After the honey is extracted, it’s strained to remove any remaining wax and other particles. Some beekeepers and bottlers might heat the honey to make this process easier.
What is Step 5?
It shows a honey seeker robbing a wild bee colony.
What is the painting from Spain?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!
The process that destroys the yeast in the honey by applying high heat to the honey.
What is Pasteurization?
The substance never spoils.
What is Honey?