BEE Specific
The special dance honeybees use to show others where food is.
What is the waggle dance?
Human development and agricultural intensification lead to this primary threat.
What is habitat loss?
The part of a plant that attracts most pollinators.
What are flowers?
This part of the flower helps attract the attention of pollinators and is usually brightly colored or decorated with patterns.
What are petals?
This long, straw-like mouthpart is used by butterflies and moths to suck up nectar from deep inside flowers.
What is proboscis?
The male honey bees are called this.
What is drones?
This term is used to describe changes in environmental conditions that impact things like temperatures and rainfall.
What is climate change?
This pollinator is attracted to flowers that smell stinky or smell like rotting fruit or meat.
What is a fly?
This product of the flower is usually yellow in color and moved from one flower to another to help make seeds.
What is pollen?
Unlike humans, insects have these complex visual organs made of thousands of tiny lenses, allowing them to spot movement and ultraviolet patterns.
What are compound eyes?
These insects pollinate tomato plants.
What is a bumblebee?
Neonicotinoids are a widely used type of this chemical, which can disorient bees and damage their
central nervous systems.
What is a pesticide (or insecticide)?
These pollinators are attracted to flowers that are white, give off a sweet smell and bloom at nighttime.
What is bats or moths?
Many flowers produce this sweet liquid that many pollinators like to consume.
What is nectar?
Bees use three small, simple eyes on the top of their head called ocelli to detect this, helping them
navigate and avoid aerial predators.
What is light? (or shadows/sun)
This is where the majority of native bees build their nests.
What is the ground?
Because an entire ecosystem would collapse without them, pollinators like the fig wasp or certain bees
hold this specific ecological title.
What is a keystone species?
This insect uses mud to build its nest.
What is mason bee OR mud dauber?
This part of the flower makes the pollen.
What is the stamen? (Anther is also accepted)
This type of electric charge builds up on a bee's body as it flies through the air, acting like a magnet to pull pollen off the flower.
What is a positive electrostatic charge?
Bees can see this special type of light on flowers that humans cannot see without a blacklight.
What is ultraviolet/UV light?
Roughly this fraction of the food we eat depends on pollinators.
What is one of out every 3 bites?
These pollinators like flat, wide-open flowers that have a lot of pollen.
What are beetles?
This part of the flower is sticky on the top to catch pollen and makes seeds at the bottom.
What is the pistil?
The physical process where bumblebees rapidly vibrate their flight muscles to shake tightly trapped pollen out of specific flowers like tomatoes
.What is buzz pollination or sonication?)