This was used to pay taxes in 11th century Germany.
What is honey?
100
These bees are all female.
What are workers?
100
This is the official state insect of Vermont.
What is a honey bee?
200
The first step in the process by which bees convert nectar into honey.
What is regurgitation?
200
Each hive has only one of this type of bee.
What is the queen bee?
200
Before box hives, bee were kept in these straw and whicker boxes that had to be destroyed in order to harvest honey.
What are skeps?
200
Besides mating drones do this important work for the hive.
What is nothing?
200
This a fear of beestings.
What is apiphobia?
300
Honey will never do this.
What is spoil?
300
This phenomena, characterized by the disappearance of a hive's worker bees, is causing the decline of honeybees throughout the United States and the world.
What is Colony Collapse Disorder?
300
This ancient civilization is the first known to keep domesticated beehives.
What is Egypt?
300
Bees communicate with each other by doing this.
What is dancing?
300
A typical honeycomb cell is this shape.
What is a hexagon?
400
Honey is made of about 80% of this substance.
What are sugars?
400
An average hive has this many bees during the summer.
What is 80,000?
400
This is the age of the oldest bee discovered in the fossil record.
What is 100 million years?
400
This happens to the drones of the hive every winter.
What is killing and death?
400
Honeybees beat their wings this many times per second.
What is 240 beats per second?
500
The word "honey" originates from the Hebrew language. What is the meaning of "honey" in Hebrew?
What is "enchanted?"
500
Honeybees produce this substance through special glands in their abdomens, which they can use to help construct the hive.