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Quiz about Sting Like a Bee
Quiz about Sting Like a Bee

Sting Like a Bee Trivia Quiz


This quiz is about bees and beekeeping.

A multiple-choice quiz by wordwalker. Estimated time: 4 mins.
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Author
wordwalker
Time
4 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
321,946
Updated
Apr 21 23
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
2098
Awards
Top 35% Quiz
Last 3 plays: Guest 75 (6/10), Jaydel (8/10), Guest 24 (6/10).
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Question 1 of 10
1. What is the place called where a beekeeper keeps his bee hives? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. In the wild, bees usually make their hives in hollow trees but beekeepers put them in square boxes stacked on top of each other. What are the boxes called that the bees live in and raise new bees? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. What are the boxes called where bees store their honey? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. How do beekeepers calm the bees so they can check the hives or harvest the honey? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. There are three types of bees living and working in a hive. One type is the queen, what is her job? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Another type of bee is the drone. What is the drone's job as part of a bee colony? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. How do drones use their stingers? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Worker bees collect all the honey brought into the hive. "550 bees visiting 2.5 million flowers and flying 35,584 miles, will produce about a pound of honey." What other service do bees perform that is vital to the agricultural industry as they collect nectar?

Nature's Golden Treasure Honey Cookbook Joe M. Parkhill
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Question 9 of 10
9. A worker bee can sting only once because it loses its stinger after it stings. What happens after it loses its stinger? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. What is another secretion from a bee that is sold as a health food supplement? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. What is the place called where a beekeeper keeps his bee hives?

Answer: Apiary

The area can also be called a bee yard. An aviary is a place that birds are kept.
2. In the wild, bees usually make their hives in hollow trees but beekeepers put them in square boxes stacked on top of each other. What are the boxes called that the bees live in and raise new bees?

Answer: Brood Chamber

In a strong hive two larger boxes are at the bottom with nine frames in each. Each frame will have starter sheets of wax in them to encourage the bees to begin to form wax comb. This gives the bees plenty of room to work and raise their young. Overcrowding can cause bees to swarm, (leave the hive), and find a better home.
3. What are the boxes called where bees store their honey?

Answer: Supers

Boxes called supers are placed on top of the brood chambers. These boxes are usually smaller in size and have ten frames with starter wax sheets. The bees will begin making wax comb and then will fill the comb with nectar they have gathered. The nectar they gather from flowers mixes with enzymes in their stomach to make honey.

They regurgitate the honey into the comb and will fan the honey to reduce the moisture level. Honey with too high of a moisture level is prone to fermentation.
4. How do beekeepers calm the bees so they can check the hives or harvest the honey?

Answer: Smoking

Part of the beekeeper's equipment is a smoker can. This can has a lid and has a bellows attached to the side. There are various fuels that can be used. I always preferred burlap. After lighting the fuel the lid is closed and the bellows supplies oxygen and also blows the smoke over the frames and into the hive. Bees sensing the danger of fire begin to engorge themselves with honey preparing to swarm.

This makes them lethargic and less able to sting.
5. There are three types of bees living and working in a hive. One type is the queen, what is her job?

Answer: Lay eggs

The queen's job is to lay eggs. A good queen can lay as many as 2000 eggs a day. There can be several virgin queens in a hive but a hive usually has only one fertile queen.
6. Another type of bee is the drone. What is the drone's job as part of a bee colony?

Answer: Mate with a queen

The drone's sole purpose is to mate with a queen. Drones drift from hive to hive and congregate in areas near the hives waiting for queens to come looking for them. Drones have great eyesight and mate with a queen in flight. A queen will fly out for several days and will be mated by many different drones before she is ready to return to the hive and begin laying eggs.
7. How do drones use their stingers?

Answer: Drones are stingless

Only queen bees and worker bees have stingers.
8. Worker bees collect all the honey brought into the hive. "550 bees visiting 2.5 million flowers and flying 35,584 miles, will produce about a pound of honey." What other service do bees perform that is vital to the agricultural industry as they collect nectar? Nature's Golden Treasure Honey Cookbook Joe M. Parkhill

Answer: Pollination

The life span of a worker bee is about six weeks and she is a busy bee every day of her life. She will meticulously clean cells for queens to lay her eggs. She feeds the larvae and the queen, makes wax and keeps the hive clean. She brings nectar and pollen into the hive and will store, cure and cap the cells.

She will also fan and bring water into the hive to keep the hive from getting too warm. In the process of all this busy work bees provide the pollination so necessary for good crop production.

When her wings begin to wear out she will usually crawl out of the hive to die. :(
9. A worker bee can sting only once because it loses its stinger after it stings. What happens after it loses its stinger?

Answer: It dies

Worker bees can sting only once because they have a barbed stinger and when they sting it pulls the venom pouch from the bee and she dies. A queen bee's stinger is not barbed and a queen can sting again and again.
10. What is another secretion from a bee that is sold as a health food supplement?

Answer: Royal Jelly

Royal jelly is a white, milky substance secreted from a gland in a workers bee's head. It is used to feed the bee larvae. Through hive manipulation beekeepers can increase the amount of royal jelly that is produced. It is then harvested and sold as a health food supplement.

Honey wine or mead, honey butter and honey spread are just some of the many ways honey can be processed once it has been harvested.
Source: Author wordwalker

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