So How Does a Bee Fly? Trivia Quiz

Answer: Imported by Europeans

Western honey bees or European honey bees (Apis mellifera) are native to Europe, Asia and Africa and were introduced to North America in the 1600s by European explorers and settlers. The Western honey bee quickly spread throughout the United States and North America, helped by settlers bound for the west coast of the United States.

Answer: Part of the honey bee reproduction cycle

The Western honey bee swarms as part of its reproduction cycle. Honey bees normally swarm in the spring. The old queen prepares several weeks in advance by producing new queens and worker bees quit feeding her for a time until she is light enough to fly. Approximately 60 percent of the bees in the hive will swarm with the old queen.

The swarm will follow scout bees which search for a suitable new hive location. It's very interesting that the scout bees will reach a "consensus" and the swarm will then head to the agreed upon location!

Answer: Bee

The honey bee is a bee, a flying insect, and is closely related to wasps and ants. Bees have six legs and pollinate, wasps have six legs and prey upon or parasitizes other species, ants have six legs , and only some species can fly. Spiders are arthropods that have eight legs. All have their important niche in nature. Please think about that before you squish or swat one of these critters.

Answer: Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD)

Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) is a very serious problem in the United States and throughout the world. CCD was so named in 2007 when the number of bee colonies declined significantly, 30 to 70 percent in some areas of the United States. Although the actual cause of CCD has yet to be determined, scientists believe CCD cause factors include: migratory beekeeping, pesticides, environmental changes, and especially mites and insect diseases. CCD has affected pollination of crops which in turn causes prices of agriculture products to rise. Have you noticed the price of hamburger lately?

Answer: Apiculture

Beekeeping, or apiculture, is the maintenance of honey bee colonies by humans. A beekeeper, or apiarist, keeps bees in order to collect honey and other bee produced products of the hive to include beeswax, pollen, and royal jelly. A location where bees are kept is called an apiary or "bee yard".
Agriculture basically is farming. Horticulture is basically gardening, and viticulture is the study and production of grapes and wine.

Answer: Beehive

The domesticated Western honey bee makes its home in a beehive. A beehive is part of an apiary, also known as a bee yard, maintained by a beekeeper, also known as an apiarist. Depending upon the amount of pollen in the area, a beekeeper may have up to 40 hives in his bee yard.

Answer: 3 miles (4.8 km)

The Western honey bee will forage within a 3 mile (4.8 km) radius of its hive. Beekeepers usually have no more than 25 to 40 beehives in an apiary (bee yard) because competition for pollen and nectar in an overpopulated area results in a lower volume of honey produced and an increased chance of diseases occurring within the hives.

Answer: Egyptians

Egyptians were practicing the art of beekeeping at least 4,500 years ago as depicted on the walls of sun temple of Nyuserre Ini from the 5th Dynasty dated earlier than 2422 BC. Scenes on the temple walls depict workers blowing smoke into hives as they remove honeycombs.

Answer: Clover honey

The correct answer is clover honey. The color and flavor of honey differs depending on the nectar source (the blossoms) visited by the honey bees. There are more than 300 unique types of honey available in the United States, each originating from a different floral source. Several types are: buckwheat honey which is dark and full-bodied, and sage honey, primarily produced in California, is light in color, heavy bodied and has a mild but delightful flavor.

The most common is clover honey which has a pleasing mild taste and varies in color from "water" white to light amber to amber.

Answer: Africanized bees

Africanized honey bees are a growing concern in the United States. These bees (Apis mellifera) escaped from an experiment in Brazil in 1957 and migrated north to the United States, arriving in 2002. These bees are much more defensive than Western honey bees and swarms of Africanized bees have taken over Western honey bee hives by invading and killing the queens.

Although their venom is no more poisonous than that of a Western honey bee, Africanized bees have been known to chase a human for over a mile.

After three years of breeding with Western honey bees, some of their aggressiveness abates.