Bee Life
This is the first stage of a bees life cycle
What is the egg.
This is the colorful and fragrant part of a flower to attract pollinators.
What are petals?
This is the longest a bee can live.
What is queens can live for 2-3 years?
This was the year that the first cases of what became known as CCD were reported.
What is 2006?
These are the thick green leaves that protect a flower before it blooms.
What are sepals?
This is the segment of a bee that has wings and legs.
This male portion of a flower is made of two parts.
What is the stamen?
Honey bees do this when the hive gets too crowded.
What is swarm?
These are three things that are thought to contribute to pollinator decline and CCD. (Many options)
Climate Change, herbicides, pesticides, monolithic farming practices, transporting bees cross country, mites, etc.
This is the highest number of eggs a queen can lay in a day according to class.
What are 2,000?
This is the only bee in the hive that cannot sting.
What is a drone?
This female portion of a flower is made of four parts.
What is a pistil?
What is honey, wax, and royal jelly?
CCD was first studied at this university
Honey bees can't see this color, but do see this type of light that humans can't see.
What is red and ultra-violet?
This segment of the bee has wax glands and a stinger.
What is the abdomen?
This is the tube like structure that pollen travels down on its way to the ovary.
What is the style?
These are two reasons bees are not generally aggressive towards people. (one right to get points)
If a bee stings it dies, and bees are herbivores and only forage for nectar and pollen.
Since the onset of CCD the number of bee hives in the US has gone in this direction.
What is down?
All angiosperms are one of these two types.
What are monocots or dicots?
It takes this many parts of honey to make one part of wax.
What is 8?
This small structure produces pollen grains for a flower.
This is the term for a small hive of bees you can purchase to start a bee hive in your yard.
What is a nuke?
Since the onset of CCD the number of bee hives worldwide has gone in this direction.
What is up?
In an average worker bees life span a single bee will only produce this much honey.
What is 1/12 of a tablespoon?