Beekeeping History

What is the agriculture of bees called?

• Horticulture

• Apiculture

• Bombaculture

• Honeyculture

What was the primary method of beekeeping more than 10,000 years ago?

• Collecting pollen from flowers instead of honey.
• Using honey extractors

• Keeping bees in artificial hives made of wood.
• Harvesting honey from wild bee colonies in tree hollows or caves.

What is this called and how is it made (read answers carefully)?

• A skep, made from concrete

• A birdhouse, made from wood

• A skep, made from woven material

• A nest, made from grass and twigs

Domestication of honeybees was documented around 4500 years ago by the...

• Vikings

• Egyptians

• Mesopotamians

• Myans

True or false: Many ancient beekeeping methods relied on destroying the whole colony

• False
• True

What was the first kind of hive with mobile combs?

• Langstroth hive
• Beehaus hive
• Warre hive
• Top-bar hive

The Langstroth Hive was invented in the...

• 1800s

• 1600s

• 1700s

• 1900s

Langstroth hives allowed for better separation of the brood nest and honey using...

• Smoke

• Queen excluders

• solid boxes
• fixed panels

What kind of bee was bred by a German monk in the early 1900s?

• Carniolan

• European

• Buckfast

• Africanized

Approximately how much is the US beekeeping industry worth?

• $2 billion
• $100 million

• $1 billion
• $700 million