Interesting Facts
A honey bee visits up to _______ flowers during a collection trip.
What is 100?
CCD is short for what term?
What is Colony Collapse Disorder?
Bees ___________ more than 100 types of crops in the United States.
What is pollinate?
An organ in the abdomen of a worker bee used for defense.
What is a stinger?
A person wo studies insects.
What is an entomologist?
Losing its stinger will cause a bee to _______.
Die
If the bees continue to die because of CCD there will be a serious shortage of _____________.
What is food?
Bees are the only insect that make this food we can eat.
What is honey?
This part of the bee contains organs like the honey stomach, heart and stinger.
What is the abdomen?
Bees perform this dance to tell other bees directions to the flowers/nectar.
What is a waggle dance?
This bee lays about 2,000 eggs per day.
What is a queen bee?
This parasite attacks and feeds on the blood of honey bees.
What is a varroa mite?
The plants that bees pollinate create _______ and _________ for many other creatures, such as birds, squirrels, and insects.
What are food and shelter?
Bees store the pollen they collect in these.
What are pollen baskets?
The three classes of a honeybee colony.
What is a queen, drone and worker bee?
Honey bees did not originate in North America but were brought here from ___________________.
What is Europe?
You should avoid using this kind of chemical in a pollinator garden.
What is a pesticide?
You can thank bees for the __________ that feed our cows.
What are grasses.
These are used to touch and smell.
What are antennae?
Common name of an apiculturist.
What is a beekeeper?
Honey bees visit many flowers and slurp up this sweet juice that they turn into honey.
What is nectar?
What is growing bee-friendly plants?
What is supporting local bee keepers?
What is avoiding pesticides?
What is educating others about the importance of bees?
These many bites of food that we eat depends on pollinators.
What is 1 out of 3 bites.
Bees communicate with smells. These are chemicals that are released by the bee.
What are pheromones?
A dramatic change that some animals and insects go through during their life cycles.
What is metamorphosis?