Interesting Facts
CCD
Importance of Bees
Power of the Bee
Challenge Questions about Bees
100

queen, worker, drone

What are the types of bees?

100
CCD is short for what term?
What is colony collapse disorder?
100

the name of of a group of hives

What is apiary?

100

trachael and varroa mites 

What are the 2 types of parasitic mites?

100

An organ in the abdomen of a worker bee used for defense.

What is the stinger?

200
This insect feeds on the blood of bees.
What is the vampire mite?
200
If the bees continue to die because of CCD there will be a serious shortage of _____________.
What is food?
200

American consumes more than a _____________ of honey per year

What is a pound?

200

queens produced commercially in these types of hives

What is nukes?

200
A person who keeps honeybees?
What is a beekeeper?
300
Many bee keepers pack up their beehives in late winter and send them to farmers in other states to do an important job.
What is pollinate crops?
300
If CCD continues to destroy honeybees there will be a serious reduction in the _____________ of fruits and vegtables.
What is production?
300

Bees are needed to pollinate crops so many beekeepers pack up their beehives in late winter and send them to __________ so that the bees can pollinate their crops.

What are farmers?

300

highly aggressive breed

What is African Bee?

300
A female bee that does all the work in the colony.
What is a worker bee?
400
Honeybees did not originate in North America but were brought here by the ___________________.
What is the colonists?
400
Bee researchers are looking at several factors which they think may be contributing to CCD, including viruses, poor nutrition and a toxic chemical called _______________.
What is pesticide?
400

the total value of annual honey production

What is 326 million?

400

straw-like tongue used to suck nectar or honey

What is the proboscis?

400
Bees abandon their hive because it has become to small for their colony and when they leave it is called a ________?
What is a swarm?
500
Honeybees visit many flowers and slurp up this sweet juice. They then spit up this juice into a honeycomb cell and fan it with their wings. When this sweet juice dries it turns into honey.
What is nectar?
500

Healthy bees stay away from abandoned beehives. Bees won't eat the honey that is left in the hive. The queen bee and some young bees are in the hive, but they do not look healthy. Only a few hundred bees are in the hive instead of thousands. These symptoms are called a __________.

What is a syndrome?

500

If our food supply is decreased because bees are not available to help pollinate agricultural crops then the consumers will have a shortage of _____________.

What is food?

500

worker bees have 3 specific jobs they can be divided into

What is the nursery, scout, or guard?

500
Changes of an insect from an egg, larva, pupa to an adult.
What is metamorphosis?
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