Honeybee Basics
This insect is famous for making honey.
What is a honeybee?
This bee lays all the eggs in the hive.
What is the queen bee?
Bees move this powdery substance from flower to flower.
What is pollen?
Bees make this sweet food from nectar.
What is honey?
Bees use this body part to defend themselves.
What is a stinger?
Honeybees live together in this type of colony home.
What is a hive?
These female bees gather food and protect the hive.
What are worker bees?
This process helps plants reproduce with the help of bees.
What is pollination?
Honey is stored inside these six-sided structures.
What are honeycombs?
This season is usually hardest for bees because flowers are scarce.
What is winter?
Honeybees collect this sweet liquid from flowers.
What is nectar?
Male bees in the hive are called these.
What are drones?
Bees are attracted to flowers because of this sweet reward.
What is nectar?
Bees create this material to build honeycombs.
What is beeswax?
These chemicals used on crops can sometimes harm bees.
What are pesticides?
Bees use this body part to carry pollen.
What are their legs?
Worker bees use this “dance” to show where flowers are located.
What is the waggle dance?
Many fruits and vegetables depend on bees for this important process.
What is pollination?
Beekeepers use this protective covering over their faces.
What is a veil?
This tiny parasite is one of the biggest threats to honeybee colonies today.
What is the Varroa mite?
This process helps bees turn nectar into honey.
What is evaporation?
This special substance made by worker bees is fed to future queens.
What is royal jelly?
This happens when a bee transfers pollen from one flower to another flower of the same species.
What is cross-pollination?
This scientific name refers to the species of the common honeybee.
What is Apis mellifera?
This term describes the mysterious disappearance of worker bees from a hive.
What is Colony Collapse Disorder?