Are You Ready to Take the Honey Bee Quiz??
Following information taken from Bee Culture Magazine, Dec. 2005

Level 1 Beekeeping

1.  Worker honey bees generally live longer in the winter than they do in the summer
     in the northern climates (True or False)?

2.  Name what body region the majority of an adult honey bee's body fat is found?

3.  Honey bee larvae produce large quantities of fat body (True or False)?

4.  The integument or exoskeleton serves the honey bee as a primary defense against
     pathogens (True or False)?

5.  The honey bee immune response can involve both humeral (hormonal) and cellular
     reactions (True or False)?

6.  Varroa mite infestations are effective in reducing drifting between honey bee
     colonies (True or False)?

7.  The number of female Varroa mite feeding perforations found on a honey bee pupa
     increases throughout the pupal stage of development (True or False)?

8.  Female honey bee tracheal mite dispersal occurs primarily during the day
     (True or False)?

9.  Oogenesis and subsequent oviposition of female Varroa mites depends on
     repeated hemolymph meals taken be female mites (True or False)?

10. Varroa mites perforate the integument of the host bee pupae with their chelicerae
      causing cell damage in and around the wound (True or False)?

11. Varroa mites have been shown to cause deformed bees, when mite levels are
      high within a colony.  (True or False)?

12. Varroa mites affect worker flight activity (True or False)?

13. Within the winter cluster, Varroa mites move from bee to bee (True or False)?

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Here's some interesting bee knowledge

It takes 2 million flowers to make 1 jar of honey.

A hive of bees fly 55,000 miles to make 1 jar of honey.

An average worker bee makes 1/12 tsp. of honey in her life.

All worker bees are female.

Bees communicate to one another by dancing, which can be understood in complete darkness.

A queen bee can lay up to 3000 eggs in one day - that's 175-200 thousand annually.

One hive may hold up to 80,000 bees - one queen, a few hundred drone (males), and the rest workers.

When Alexander the Great died, he was carried back to Greece in a golden coffin filled with honey.

One gallon of honey equals the combined flight distance of going to the moon and back.

Bees have a magnetic band around their brains to help them navigate.

The healing use of the products from a honeybee hive is called Apitherapy.