Bees@Cornell
Honey Bees in Winter
Native Bees in Winter
Bee-Board Facts
Misc.
100

What year was the Bee Club at Cornell founded

When was 1997?

100

How do honey bees survive the winter without flowers?

What is feed on honey stores?

100
What is one way to help native bees overwinter in your lawn?

What is leaving leaf litter?

100

Who on Bee-board has a pet falcon

Who is no one?

100

How much honey do honey bees need for the winter

What is one full deep box? 90-100 lbs? It depends?

200

What Cornell Lab was built on Freese Rd in 1968?

Dyce Lab for honey bee studies?

200

This caste of bee is removed from the hive in preparation for winter

What is a drone?

200
Solitary bees provision their nest cell(s) with 

What is pollen and nectar?

200

What type of bee is Steve's favorite wild bee?

What is a ground nesting bee (Andrena regularis)

200

True/false: honey bees hibernate in the winter

What is false?

300

James Elton Dyce is credited with the invention of what honey product

What is creamed honey?

300

What can a beekeeper feed their honey bees if they consume all of their stores?

What is a candy board/fondant?

300

Roughly how many bee species are overwintering in New York?

What is over 400?

300

What European city hosted Alexis for a summer of learning?

What is Madrid?

300

What is the Dilmun Hill address?

Where is 705 Dryden Rd?

400

This former Cornell professor is the author of these bee books:
"Honey Bee Democracy"
"The Lives of Bees"
"The Wisdom of the Hive"

Who is Dr. Tom Seeley?

400

This is the temperature you want to make sure it is when you check your bees in the winter

What is about 50 degrees?

400

Bumble bees, carpenter bees, and other wild social bees overwinter primarily as

What are individually mated queens?

400

How many times did Ellen take her driving test?

What is one time?
400

How many times did Nick take his driving test?

What is two times?

500

Who was the first treasurer of the CU bee club?

Who is Dr. David Peck?

500

Where would you find the queen in a winter hive and how warm would it be around her

What is in the center of the cluster and around 95 degrees?

500

Ground and cavity-nesting solitary bees primarily overwinter as

What are prepupae or adults?

500

Where is nick's favorite restaurant in Ithaca?

Where is Koko?

500

What is a honey bee disease more prevalent in the winter

What is nosema?