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Honeybee scientific name

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Apis mellifera

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Who are the authors of honeybee

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Candace Fleming

Eric Rohmann

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What gender are worker bees?

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Female

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What does a newly emerged apis eat to grow strong?

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Pollen

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What is Apis’s first job in the hive

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Cleaning

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What is Apis’s second job?

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Nursing

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At what age does Apis develop special, expansive glands behind her face

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Three days

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What are the glands that apis develops at three days old for?

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Nursing the other larvae with milky sweet liquid

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At what age does Apis leave the nursery?

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8 days

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10
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Why does Apis leave the nursery on the eighth day of life?

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Queen tending

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How many eggs does a queen produce in a day?

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Two thousand!

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How big is a honeybee egg?

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Half the size of a grain of rice

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What color is a honeybee egg

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Pearly white

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What is queen tending?

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The worker bees groom, feed and examine the queen bee because she doesn’t have time to take care of herself

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What does Apis use to examine the queen bee?

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Their tongues

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What does Apis use to groom the queen bee?

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Their forelegs

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What does Apis use to pick up the queens scent ?

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Their antennae, legs and tongues

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What does the queens scent convey to the rest of the nest when they smell it?

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That the queen is healthy and safe

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What is Apis’s 4th job?

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Comb building

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At what age does Apis begin making flakes of white wax in her abdominal glands?

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12 days

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What is the flaky white wax produced at 12 days old used for?

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Comb building

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22
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Where on the bee are the comb building glands located

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Her abdomen

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Where on the honeybee are the glands for nursing located

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Behind her face

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24
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At what age does Apis start food handling ?

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15 days

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What are honeybees jaws shaped like?
Spoons, spoon-shaped
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What does Apis use to shape wax into a comb?
Her spoon-shaped jaws and her legs
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What does a forager bee bring to Apis ?
Nectar
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How does Apis thicken the nectar
Using her tongue to fold and unfold it over and over
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What does the thickened nectar become as it ripens over a few days?
Honey
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What job does Apis start at 18 days old?
Guarding
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At what age does Apis go outside of the nest
18 days
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At what age does Apis fly!?
25 days
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What does Apis use to test the air and sniff other bees to see if they belong?
Her antennae
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What do robber bees do?
Steal honey
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How fast does Apis wings beat when flying?
200 times per second !
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What is propolis?
A sticky plant sap used as bee glue
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What kind of flowers does Apis follow the floral odor for miles?
Milkweed, coneflower, clover
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What does Apis carry swallowed nectar she wants to take home in?
A specialized sac called a honey stomach
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How is the field pollinated by bees
Pollen from each flower visited for nectar clings to her bristly legs and is carried to each subsequent flower
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How does Apis communicate where the flowers with sweet nectar are?
By dancing, the other bees listen to the vibration of her dance
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How many miles does Apis travel between nest and flowers collecting nectar ?
500 miles
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How many flowers does Apis visit while collecting nectar?
30,000
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How long does Apis live?
35 days
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How much honey is produced from all the nectar Apis collects during her lifetime?
1/12th of a teaspoon of honey
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Visibly, how can you tell that Apis’s life is coming to an end?
She gets thinner, slower, loses her hair and her wings fray and tatter
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What are the 3 sections of the honeybees body from front to back
Head/thorax/abdomen
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How many pairs of wings does Apis have?
Two pairs
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How many pairs of legs does Apis have?
Three pairs of legs
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How many eyes does Apis have ?
Five
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How many antennae does Apis have
Two
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What fraction of American food is in someway a product of honeybee pollination?
1/3 , one third
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What are reasons scientists believe bee populations are declining?
Pesticides Climate change Disease Loss of habitat
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What country has developed insect sized drones capable of artificially pollinating flowers
Japan
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How many species of bees are there in the world
20000
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What kind of bees are the best pollinators of blueberries and tomatoes
Bumblebees
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What kind of bees are the best pollinators for alfalfa?
Leaf-cutter bees
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What color flowers do bees prefer
Yellow Blue Purple
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Name some other plants bees love
Sage Lavender Bee balm Heather
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How many bees are in a colony
20,000 to 60,000!
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How many groups are colonies divided into and what are they?
Three, Queen Workers Drones
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What gender are drone bees
Male
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What gender are worker bees
Female
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What job do drone bees have?
Their sole purpose is mating with the queen
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How many days does it take a worker bee to grow
21 days from egg to worker bee
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How many days does it take a fresh egg to hatch?
Three days, a larva hatches from the egg
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How many days for a larva to spin a cocoon ?
Eight days
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What develops from the larva inside of its cocoon?
A pupa
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How many days for the pupa to shed its cocoon?
21 days
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In the United States are most honeybees raised in the wild or by beekeepers?
Beekeepers
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How many beekeepers are there in the United States
212,000
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How many man-made bee colonies are there in the United States
Almost 3 million
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What interesting things have scientists been able to train bees to smell
Bombs and dead bodies
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What are the kinds of communication dances honeybees do?
The round dance | The figure eight dance
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What does the round dance communicate
That food is nearby
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What does the figure eight dance communicate
Where and how far away flowers are
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In the figure eight dance how is the flowers distance communicated
By the length of the dances straight vibrating run
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In the figure eight dance how is the direction of the flowers communicated
By the angle of the dance on the honeycomb in relation to the sun
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In the figure eight dance how is the quality of the food communicated
By the intensity of the waggle
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How long do queen bees live for
Two to three years
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During the summer how many eggs can a queen bee lay
2,000 eggs a day
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What is a queen bees job
To lay eggs and produce chemicals that guide the behavior of other bees
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What group of bees do we only see flying around outside
Worker bees
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What are Apis’s two big eyes called
Compound eyes
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What are Apis’s three small eyes called
Ocelli
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What are ocelli used for
Determining the brightness and intensity of light
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What are Apis’s compound eyes used for
Distinguishing light and color
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In what part of Apis would you find her stinger and venom sac
Her abdomen
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Where would you find Apis’s pollen baskets
Her hind legs
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What 3 main functions does the proboscis have
Sucking Food exchange Communication
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What is a pheromone?
A chemical that directs or changes behavior
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Apis jobs in order
``` Cleaning Nursing Queen tending Comb building Food handling Guarding Foraging (flying) ```
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What medal did honeybee book win
The Robert Sibert Medal
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Honeybee book was named an orbis Pictus award honor book by who
National council of teachers of English

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