23 PA Farm Show Honey Individual Exhibit Quiz

Which of the following are among the five forms of honey presented in the Honey Production and Processing individual exhibits?

• Funny Honey

• Comb Honey

• Runny Honey

• Creamed Honey

• Extracted Honey

These are some genuine reasons people love comb honey:

• "It all ends up in mah belly anyway!"

• Each cell can contain the flavors of different floral nectars, side by side.

• "It's totally messy and the honey runs down my arm!"

• When eaten with a cracker or cheese, you don't notice the wax!

Advancements by the following people made extracted honey possible:

• Beyonce, the queen bee

• Lorenzo Langstroth

• Major Hruschka

• Catherine, Princess of Wales

Answer explanation

Did you know that while not a contributor of extracted honey, Princess Kate is a beekeeper!

Creamed honey could be described as:

• spoiled

• spreadable

• containing butter

• crystallized

These are effective ways to remove bees from the honey in a hive:

• Use a Porter or Triangle Escape board.

• Sit outside the hive and serenade them, they like music!

• Use a Fume board that smells really badly.

• If there aren't many, you can gently brush them off with a handful of long grass.

• Tell them a bedtime story. They will drift to sleep and fall off the frames.

These would be reasons to NOT use the "destruct: crush and strain" harvest method:

• "I worked my mandibles to the bone to have you just scrape that all away?"

  -Suzy, worker bee

• Eventually, old comb should be replaced with new.

• Bees now have to expend lots of energy, to draw new comb (build new honeycomb).

• If you are in a hurry, crush and strain takes more time.

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What are things that need to be done to a frame of honey before it can be placed in a honey extractor?

• The capping on each cell must be removed.

• The comb must be placed in a basket and flung around one's head.

• Bees must be removed from the frame.

• The queen must give her approval.

Select the accurate statements about granulated honey.

• Granulated honey is spoiled and should be discarded.

• It's not "bad", its just solid!

• Granulated honey can never return to liquid form.

• Carefully monitored heat will return granulated honey to its liquid form.

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Cut-Comb and Section Comb Honey could be labeled as:

• raw honey

• unfiltered/

  unstrained

• filtered

• strained

Lorenzo Langstroth, the Father of Modern Beekeeping, was born in:

• Massachusetts

• Austria

• Pennsylvania

• Egypt