Types of flowers
This well know flower usually has white petals and a yellow center.
What is a daisy?
The scientific name of this plant is Phacelia tanacetifolia.
What is Bee's Friend?
This specialty Bee job includes cleaning the hive, nursing the larva, building comb, temperature regulation, defending the hive, gathering and processing nectar and pollen.
What is a Worker Bee?
This is the 2nd life cycle stage of Bees.
What is a Larva?
This is a sweet and viscous substance made by several types of bees and used to provide nourishment for the colony.
What is honey?
This pesky weed presents a bright yellow flower and produces nectar and pollen when few other plants are in flower, however it is the bane of most landscapers.
What is a dandelion?
Honeybees rely on this to identify friendly bees from foes. New research suggests those cues may have something to do with the honeybees' gut microbes.
What are Chemical cues?
This specialty bee job has one responsibility and that is reproduction.
What is a Drone?
Egg, Larval, Pupa, Adult
What is the life cycle of the Bee?
This substance is used to form cells for honey storage and larval and pupal protection
What is beeswax?
This substance is produced by flowers, attracts bees and is used by the bees to make honey.
What is nectar?
This Bee is considered a friend. They rarely sting. They are solitary bees. They have a shiny abdomen with a black shiny spot on their yellow fuzzy thorax.
What is a Carpenter bee?
This specialty bee job is performed by a single bee in the hive/colony.
What is a Queen?
At the start of this life cycle stage, the cell containing the organism is capped and sealed with wax.
What is a Pupa?
A honey bee secretion that is used in the nutrition of larvae and adult queens
What is Royal Jelly?
This plant is not only a high nectar producer, but it also produces, on occasion a lucky charm.
what is a clover?
One of the world's tiniest and most destructive parasites. This foe sucks the blood of bees and transmit deadly viruses, making them one of the greatest threats to bees.
What is the Varroa mites?
This specialty bee does not survive the winter, it has no stinger and it only makes up 10-15% of the hive's population.
What is a Drone?
Worker bees live for 5 to 7 (days, weeks months, or years).
What are WEEKS?
This is a natural product obtained from the fermentation of bee pollen mixed with bee saliva and flower nectar inside the honeycomb cells of a hive.
What is Bee bread?
One of the biggest commercial uses of U.S. honey bees is during the pollination season of California’s top valued agricultural export commodity.
What are Almonds?
This Foe is considered a mortal enemy of bees. They have been known to raid bee hives, steal honey, and attack and kill bees.
What is a wasp (yellow jacket/hornet)?
When colonies become congested or too large this specialty bee will create a new Queen Bee, and the old queen stops laying eggs and leaves with approximately half of the hive to form a new colony.
What is a Worker Bee?
This is polyethism, including cleaning, nursing, attending the Queen, building comb, receiving the pollen and nectar from foragers, temperature regulation, etc.
What are the many different activities a worker bee transitions through during her life span?
This is a resin-like material made by bees from the buds of poplar and cone-bearing trees. Bees use it to build hives, and it may contain beehive byproducts. It seems to help fight against bacteria, viruses, and fungi.
What is Proplis