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WorksheetsBees Waggle Dance
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 18mins
Match the following
Worker bee
Tend to queen, guard the hive entrance
Drone
males that mate with the Queen
Queen
Carries all the genetic traits
Package bees will contain a (a) , multiple workers, and a feeder filled with (b) syrup.
The most common method of queen introducing is using the (c) method. The worker bees become familiar with the new queen as they slowly (d) their way through the food (e) in her cage.
Purchasing a (a) hive gives you a jump start in (b) growth. However, this approach is a bit (c) than package bees, as the honeycomb can spread (d) and disease from the (e) hive to your hive.
This will contain a queen, multiple workers, and a feeder filled with sugar syrup.
Package Bees
Nucleus Hive
This approach is a bit riskier than package bees, as the honeycomb can spread pests and disease from the donor hive to your hive.
Package bees
Nucleus hive
This approach is a bit riskier than package bees, as the honeycomb can spread pests and disease from the donor hive to your hive.
Package bees
Nucleus hive
When gathering bees, what is NOT something you need
Proper enclosed clothing with hood
smoker to calm bees down
sugar/water syrup
tank top and shorts
Bees can be directed toward the hive by puffing smoke (a) them, encouraging them to move in the (b) direction (toward the container).
Bees communicate flower location using special (a) inside the hive. One bee dances, while other bees (b) to learn the (c) to a specific flower patch. The dancing bee smells like the (d) patch, and also gives the watching bees a (e) of the nectar she gathered.
Bees communicate about where flower patches by
Dancing
flying
talking
flapping their wings
The dancing bee (a) back and forth as she moves forward in a (b) line, then circles around to repeat the dance. The length of the (c) line, called the waggle (d) , shows roughly how (e) it is to the flower patch.
The midline of the circle for the bees is the
Waggle run
Waggle crawl
Wiggle run
Wiggle crawl
Bees dance with the waggle run at a specific angle away from (a) up. Outside the hive, bees look at the position of the (b) , and fly at the same angle (c) from the sun.
If you look at the waggle dance pictures inside and outside of the hive, which direction does the bee always go from the sun?
Counter clockwise
Clockwise
If the sun is straight up in the air, NOON, what directions will the bee take with a 90 degree angle?
To the right
Straight down
To the left
In this dance, the bee walks in a (a) , turns around, then walks the same circle in the (b) direction. She repeats this many times. Sometimes, the bee includes a little (c) as she’s turning around. The (d) of this waggle is thought to indicate the (e) of the flower patch she has found.
What tells the other bees the quality of the round dance?
The size
The duration
The direction
Bee pollen is a mixture of flower (a) nectar (a sweet watery plant substance), and bee (b) (spit) packed into the hive.
Bee Pollen is made by (c) and is the (d) of the young bee. It is considered one of nature's most completely nourishing foods as it contains nearly all (e) required by humans.
