Anatomy/Body
What is a bee's only main defense against its predators?
stinger
This is what people get to eat from pollinators working hard
What is fruits and vegetables?
What is the queen bee fed?
Royal Jelly
What is a family of honeybees called
A colony
True or False: A flower can pollinate itself.
False
Which type of bee lives alone and digs tunnels in wood?
Carpenter Bees
A bee has this many eyes
5 (2 large compound and 3 simple)
True or False: Bees pollinate because they want more plants to grow.
The three types of bees that make up a hive
What are drones, workers and the queen?
Which type of honeybee does not have a stinger?
Drone
This part of the plant attracts pollinators
What is the flower?
Which type of bee or wasp accounts for most stings?
Yellow Jacket
A bee has this many legs
6
While bees and butterflies are important pollinator groups, name other animals that pollinate plants
What are insects (ants, flies, beetles, bats) and birds?
What is the name of a bee's tongue that collects nectar?
Proboscis
True or False: We can take as much honey as we want from a colony because they will keep making more.
What is the way a flowering plant is fertilized so it can make seeds?
Pollination
What do Potter wasps make their nest out of?
Mud
Name the three main parts of a bee's body
Head, Thorax, Abdomen
People can help pollinators by
What is starting a garden and reducing the pesticide use?
This is usually stuck on a bees legs after gathering nectar from a flower
What is pollen?
Why can a worker bee die after it stings you?
It has a barbed stinger that will get stuck in your skin.
This body part of a bee helps pollen get from flower-to-flower
What is its hairy body?
What type of wasp are also good pollinators and make open-celled nests?
Paper Wasps
A bee has this many pairs of wings
What is 2 (larger fore wings and smaller hind wings)?
Pollination happens naturally, name some other ways
What is wind, birds, butterflies and water?
Bees can't see this color, so flowers that have this color are not usually pollinated by bees
What is red?
What is true about honey that is not true about any other food we eat?
It does not expire or go bad
Why are flowers colorful and smell good?
To attract bees, butterflies and birds
Which type of wasp has a black abdomen, are aggressive and are likely to attack anyone who enters their space?
Bald Faced Hornets/Black Jackets