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Challenge Questions about Bees
100
The official state insect of North Carolina.
What is the honeybee?
100
CCD is short for what term?
What is colony collapse disorder?
100
Making honey is not the most important job honey bees have. The most important job is for the honeybees to _____________ flowers, trees, and other plants.
What is pollinate?
100
The powdery yellow stuff inside of a flower.
What is pollen?
100

An organ in the abdomen of a worker bee used for defense.

What is the stinger?

200
This insect feeds on the blood of bees.
What is the vampire mite?
200
If the bees continue to die because of CCD there will be a serious shortage of _____________.
What is food?
200
Apples, blueberries, cucumber, melons, pumpkins, squash and strawberries depend on honeybees to spread one grain of ____________ so the fruit can be developed.
What is pollen?
200
Pollen can be moved by insects, animals or __________.
What is wind?
200
A person who keeps honeybees?
What is a beekeeper?
300
Many bee keepers pack up their beehives in late winter and send them to farmers in other states to do an important job.
What is pollinate crops?
300
If CCD continues to destroy honeybees there will be a serious reduction in the _____________ of fruits and vegtables.
What is production?
300
Bees are needed to pollinate crops so many beekeepers pack up their beehives in late winter and send the to __________ so that the bees can pollinate their crops.
What are farmers?
300
Once a flower has been ___________ a seed, fruit or vegetable can grow.
What is pollinated?
300
A female bee that does all the work in the colony.
What is a worker bee?
400
Honeybees did not originate in North America but were brought here by the ___________________.
What is the colonists?
400
Bee researchers are looking at several factors which they think may be contributing to CCD, including viruses, poor nutrition and a toxic chemical called _______________.
What is pesticide?
400
We need to eat so we as _____________ have a high demand for crops. If we do not have bees we will have no crops.
What are consumers?
400
Before a seed, fruit or vegetable can grow a grain of pollen from the same plant must land on the __________ in order for it to grow a long tube down to the bottom of the pistil. Once this is done a seed, fruit or vegetable can grow.
What is the stigma?
400
Bees abandon their hive because it has become to small for their colony and when they leave it is called a ________?
What is a swarm?
500
Honeybees visit many flowers and slurp up this sweet juice. They then spit up this juice into a honeycomb cell and fan it with their wings. When this sweet juice dries it turns into honey.
What is nectar?
500
Healthy bees stay away from abandoned beehives. Bees won't eat the honey that is left in the hive. The queen bee and some young bees are in the hive, but they do not look healthy. Only a few hundred bees are in the hive instead of thousands. These symptoms are called a __________.
What is a syndrome?
500

If our food supply is decreased because bees are not available to help pollinate crops then the consumers will have a shortage of _____________.

What is food.

500
When the bee flies from one blossom to another to slurp up sweet nectar the pollen from blossom to blossom sticks to its legs. As the bee flies from one blossom to the next the ________ holds or gathers the pollen from blossom to blossom. The job of this flower part increases the probability that the blossom will be pollinated.
What is the stamen?
500
Changes of an insect from an egg, larva, pupa to an adult.
What is metamorphosis?