Beekeeping Environment Quiz
In Mary’s we have three hives of honey bees (apis mellifera). Living in each hive (in summer) there are three ‘types’ of bee. Drones (male bees), workers (infertile females) and a queen (fertile female). Who in the hive can sting?
All bees can sting
Drones and Workers
Only the queen
The queen and the workers
In winter (now) there are only two types of bee - someone gets evicted in autumn - who is not around in the wintertime?
The drones
The workers
The queen
No one gets evicted - bees are too nice!
Bees like all insects have 6 legs. But did you know they have 4 wings? They also have more eyes than us humans! How many eyes do they have?
3 eyes
4 eyes
5 eyes
6 eyes
Bees are famous as honey makers! But it takes a lot of time and effort to get just one jar. How many miles must bees fly to make just one pound of honey?
24900 miles (about once around the world)
107070 miles (around 4.3 times around the world)
55,000 miles (around 2.2 times around the world)
249010 miles (around 10 times around the world)
Honey bees don’t only make honey - but a number of other things too such as beeswax, bee bread (pollen mixed with honey) and propolis. What is propolis mainly derived from?
Resin
Water
Mud/sand
Nectar
As well as making honey and wax, bees also pollinate many crops and flowering plants. How much of our food is pollinated by bees and other pollinating insects?
One sixth
One third
One quarter
One half
Some crops need a pollination service. This is where a beekeeper will bring hives of bees onto a crop at the request of the landowner to pollinate it - so that they get more produce. Which of the following crops relies entirely on bees for pollination?
Oil Seed Rape
Apples
Pears
Almonds
According to Gallai et al. (2008), how much is the pollination service of honey bees worth to the agriculture sector worldwide?
1 billion
49 billion
125 billion
153 billion
But there are not only honey bees that pollinate, there are also a large number of wild bees and pollinating wasps. In the UK, how many species of wild bees (mining bee, bumblebees, leaf cutter bees, etc) are there?
273
268
151
189
We need to protect bees and wild pollinators to ensure food security and plant diversity. How can we help them to thrive?
By planting bee-friendly flowers and plants
By creating bee hotels
By not using pesticides and herbicides
All of these!
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