Checking Hives
A person who tends to honey bee hives is known as ____
What is a beekeeper?
The organ in the abdomen of female bees used in self-defense
What is a stinger?
This is the type of honey bee that goes out to forage for resources for the hive (and does all of the hard labor).
What is a worker bee?
This honey bee type is only egg-laying bee in the hive
These large furry animals are known for having a sweet tooth, sometimes destroying hives to eat the honey stored inside.
What are bears?
Part of the bee-suit for anyone working with bees, the ___ is the part of the suit that covers the head.
What is the veil/hood?
Honey bees have four of these organs, often used in transportation
What are wings?
The liquid that honey bees gather from flowers in the field
What is nectar?
The male honey bees of the hive, whose purpose is to mate with queens of other hives.
What is a drone?
These colonial relatives to bees are sometimes a pest to hives in Michigan, but can be dangerous threats to hives in warmer climates.
What are ants?
This tool with a fire lit inside is used to help calm bees while they are being checked on.
What is a smoker?
These organs on an insect's head are used for smelling, tasting, and feeling
What are antennae?
The transfer of pollen between flowers by honey bees (and other animals and wind) is known as ____
What is pollination?
These are the worker bees that go out into the field to gather pollen, nectar, and other resources.
What are foragers?
___ is a behavior sometimes seen between hives, named because of how one hive will steal the honey and resources from another hive
What is robbing?
This is a term used to refer to a group of hives being kept.
What is an apiary?
This is the long feeding organ of a honey bee
What is a proboscis?
Honey bees and flowering plants have evolved for millions of years together, resulting in a biological dependence on one another. This relationship is known as ___
What is symbiosis?
These are worker bees with the specific job of tending to larvae, such as cleaning and feeding them
What are nurse bees?
These little ecto-parasites are known for being a very common and huge threat to hives across the world. They tend to attach to the host and feed on fat reserves of the bee.
What are varroa mites?
This tool is used to pry apart different parts of the hive, often used like a crowbar
What is a hive tool?
When honey bees in the field gather pollen, it is attached to ______ on the bee's legs, resulting in the small yellow balls of pollen on their legs.
What are pollen baskets?
Honey bees will forage in the field to collect ___ from trees in order to create a sticky glue for the hive
What is resin?
Worker bees secrete _____ from a gland in their head, which is used to feed all young bees for a short period of time. Queens, on the other hand, get a heaping helping of this substance.
What is royal jelly?
These little worms like chewing a path through the comb, leaving a trail of silk wherever they go.
What are waxworms?