Equipment
Diseases and Predators
Hive Anatomy
Fun Facts
Bee Biology
100
This piece of equiment keeps your body safe in the apiary.
What is a bee suit?
100
This is the most common affliction a hive has.
What are varroa mites?
100
This is the largest part of the hive. Egg laying and food storage both occur here.
What are deep supers?
100
This is the number of bees in half a cup.
What is 300 bees?
100
This is the type of insect we keep (common english name).
What are European Honeybees?
200
A bee yard multi-tool.
What is a Hive Tool?
200
This is the most dangerous disease a hive can have. This results in total hive loss and the only treatment is burning your whole hive.
What is American Foulbrood?
200
These are main components of the hive which beekeepers collect their reward from!
What is a honey super?
200
True or False: most honeybees are native pollinators
False!
200
She lays all the eggs in the hive and releases pheromones to keep the hive running smoothly.
Who is the queen?
300
This piece of equipment makes bees behave as if they are in a forest fire.
What is a smoker?
300
This is an often mild bacterial infection that can be caused by stress on the hives. Treatment course is antibiotics.
What is European Foulbrood?
300
These are the two bottom pieces of the hive.
What are the stand and bottom board?
300
This is what bee attack hormones smell like.
What is banana laffy taffy?
300
These bees protect the hive, nurse the babies, collect food, and build among other jobs.
Who are the worker bees?
400
You carry this tool with you absolutely everywhere. Literally.
What is yourself?
400
These three mammals can cause destruction to the inside of a hive, or even the whole apriary.
What are mice, skunks, and bears?
400
This part of the hive serves as an important seperation between the deep and honey supers.
What is the queen excluder?
400
This is the motion you should use to remove a stinger from your skin to avoid more venom being released into your skin.
What is a scrape?
400
Their only function is to fertilize another queen and then die.
What are drones?
500
This is the most important tool a beekeeper can have.
Who are other beekeepers?
500
This is a symptom of high varroa mite counts that results in a bee body malformation.
What is deformed wing?
500
This component helps with ventilation, prevent propolus build up on the outer cover, and supports bee escapes or feeders when necessary.
What is the inner cover?
500
This is the name for bees building little bridges with their bodies.
What is festooning?
500
This is the scientific name of the bees we keep.
What is apis mellifera?