Hive Trivia
The average distance bees maintain around and between combs?
What is 3/8th of an inch?
Native to New Zealand and Australia, this honey is known for the greatest healing properties.
What is manuka honey?
A series of shrill sounds made by a queen right after she emerges, considered to be a challenge between rival queens.
What is piping?
The term used for eggs, larva, and pupae within the hive.
What is brood?
Apis mellifera mellifera, the first honey bees to be imported to America. This bee was phased out due to it's defensive nature and susceptibility to most brood diseases.
What is the German black bee?
A temporary hive lid used in conjunction with bee repellent chemicals to remove bees from supers during harvest.
What is fume board?
Honey from this tree has won Worldwide Best Honey Awards, and is a monofloral honey produced in the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, South Carolina, and other states in the southeastern US.
What is sourwood?
The number of days it normally takes for queen bee development.
What is 16 days?
Pollen mixed with nectar or honey and glandular secretions.
What is bee bread?
Apis mellifera ligusta is well suited to SC, gentle, build up quickly and are good honey producers. Cons are they are prone to rob, drift between hives, and eat up stores rapidly in winter.
What are Italian Honey Bees?
The name of a sugar syrup feeder that replaces a frame in the brood nest.
What is division board feeder?
This dark honey tastes much like molasses.
What is buckwheat honey?
The ____________ is the circle of workers that surround the queen when she is stationary on the comb and attend to her needs.
What is retinue, or queen's court?
The behavior when a small group of workers crowd around the queen to kill her.
What is balling behavior?
Apis mellifera caucasica is a type of hybrid bee bred from Caucasian bees that was imported for it's increased ability to resist/tolerate varroa mites. They are more defensive, and have a high tendency to swarm.
What are Russian Honey Bees?
Two reasons why brood comb should be replaced every 3-4 years.
What is old comb produces smaller bees?
What is old comb has accumulated impurities and man-made toxins?
Honey that has a distinctive grape taste.
What is Kudzu honey?
The sperm storage organ in the queen bee.
What is spermatheca?
A popular wood and screen queen holder for shipping and introducing queens.
What is Benton queen cage?
These bees are not a true race, but a genetic trait for mite resistance.
What is VSH, or varroa sensitive hygiene?
The primary use of slatted racks in the hive.
What is reduce swarming impulse by spreading out the colony population?
What is enables the bees to raise more brood in the bottom brood chamber?
This prized honey comes from the Florida panhandle swamp areas, and inspired a movie called "Ulee's Gold". This honey does not granulate.
What is tupelo honey?
Two functions of QMP, or Queen Mandibular Pheromone in the honey bee colony.
What is inhibits ovarian development and queen rearing among worker bees?
What is encourages retinue formation and care of the queen?
What is helps with stability and cohesion of the swarms?
What is attracts drones in a drone congregating area?
The tarsus section of the honey bee leg comprises of five tarsomeres. This tarsomere is the first and much longer and thicker than the others on this part of the honey bee leg.
What is basitarsus?
Apis mellifera scutellata, honey bees that escaped from an experiment designed to improve genetics and honey production in Brazil. Name the resulting honey bee, and the man who was conducting the experiment.
What is the Africanized Honey Bee and Dr. Kerr?