Do you know the bees knees?

Honeybees are highly misunderstood creatures. Step right up and see just how much you know about honeybees. This quiz is designed for the average person who may have seen something about honeybees on a nature show.

Hopefully, at the end of the quiz, you will have either confirmed that you are a nature show geek, just a smart well read person all round, or genius enough to dive head first into beekeeping. Have fun.

Created by: Michael C Moore
  1. The binomial nomenclature (scientific name) for the western honeybee is...
  2. How many queen bees are there in a typical honeybee colony?
  3. A worker bee is...
  4. A male bee is labeled a...
  5. To make one teaspoon of honey, bees must typically visit at least...
  6. In order make honey, bees must do this to nectar...
  7. Properly cured honey jars needs to be refrigerated?
  8. Honeybees use their famous "dance" of wiggles and twists to...
  9. Like the male bees, the queen bee cannot...
  10. A worker bee has a barbed stinger and can sting a person how many times before it dies?
  11. Beeswax is...
  12. Having antiseptic, antibiotic, antibacterial, antiviral, and antifungal properties, bees use _____ to keep a healthy hive in addition to using it as a sealant.
  13. Honeybees are native to North America.

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