Role of bees
This is the gender of all worker bees
What are females?
This is the name of the rectangular structure that stores the honey.
What is a frame?
This is the time period that it takes honey bees to fully develop from egg to adult bee.
What is 2 weeks?
This is the name of the food that queen bees are fed for the first 3 days of their life.
What is royal jelly?
This is the largest of all honey bees.
What is the queen?
What is the queen?
This is the name of the structure that keeps the honey in the brood chamber.
What is the queen extruder?
This is the part of the body that carries pollen from one plant to another, allowing for pollination to occur.
What is a pollen basket?
This is the furthest distance that bees will travel away from their hives.
What is 6 miles?
DAILY DOUBLE: This type of honey, the most common of all, comes from the pollination of what plant.
What is clover?
Their only job is to mate with the queen.
What are drones?
This is the name of the box-like structure that holds the frames in place.
What is the super?
This is the number of wings that a honey bee has.
What is four?
This is how honey bees communicate.
What is dancing?
Coming from the leaf buds of trees, this is what is used to seal and protect the hive frames.
What is propolis?
These are the bees that will sting you and die afterwards.
What are worker bees?
This is the tool used to calm the bees.
What is a smoker?
A honey bee's mandible is used for chewing, like jaws. This is the name of the structure that sucks up the honey, like a tongue, found on worker bees.
What is probiscus?
This is the average life span of a worker bee.
What is 6 weeks?
This is the name of the sugary liquid found in flowers.
What is nectar?
These are the result of unfertilized eggs.
What are drones?
These small hexagonal shape features are what store honey in the frames.
What are wax cells?
DAILY DOUBLE: These are the characteristics of honey bees, classifying them as insects.
What are 6 legs and three body sections (head, thorax, abdomen)?
DAILY DOUBLE: This is the term used for when bees search for food.
What is foraging?
This state is the most heavily dependent on honey bees for pollination.
What is California?