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Intro To Beekeeping

Bee Smart beekeeping project
Across
A plant sap based substance collected and applied by honey bees to maintain a healthy hive and is often harvested.
Setting ____helps to prepare for success.
This type of bee has been identified in recent years as being very hygienic and avid pest hunters.
Often thought of and recommended as the better bee for Nebraska.
This group is made of of females that do everything the colony needs done.
Each colony consists of three of these.
This is a physical structure in which honey bees build their home inside.
These are things that may inhibit or impede people from getting into beekeeping.
Depending on how simple or extravagant people want to start, the ____ can be rather low or quite expensive.
An IPM control method that can include putting up signs to warn trespassers or those nearby of the presence of hives.
Short for "Integrated Pest Management"
This is the group made up of only males.
AN IPM control method that can include methods to prevent or reduce pest population presence such as a barrier or diversion.
A type of hive that lays or stands sideways.
New and potential beekeepers should always determine if they have an _____ that might result in anaphylaxis before starting.
These bees are the erroneous result of a sub-tropical honey bee and a European honey bee
An IPM control method that can include introducing toxic or non-toxic substances to treat for parasites such as Apivar or cedar oil.
The physical structures inside which honey bees build a beeswax nest.
IPM method that can include adding devices like a robbing screen to a hive.
The ____ of a bee yard is important in knowing how many hives can be reasonably placed and supported on that location.
Honey bees actually live within this area made up of beeswax.
This type of top bar hive lays sideways with sloped sides and was named after an African country.
An IPM contro method that can include introducing certain characteristics into the colony by changing queens or drone sources.
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An IPM control method that can include methods such as drone culling and oil traps to minimize pest populations.
The reason of the location hives are placed there such as for honey production, quarantine or breeding.
A type of honey bee named for this mountainous region in Europe where they originated.
This is the group which are the only reproductive females.
These specific ways of doing things can be personalized for maximum personal comfort and success.
Various adapted or evolved types of honey bees.
Devising solid ____ is necessary to carry out one's beekeeping plans.
Every beekeeper needs to start with a well thought out ____
Having well thought out ______ makes achieving goals easier.
In actuality, this is what beekeepers are actually taking care of.
An IPM control method that can include changing the way the host or the pest behaves such as making a hive undesirable by cleaning the bottom board regularly.
An IPM control method that can include introducing specific predators or parasites.
The _____ is the collection of all the bees.
Hives that stack or stand upward.
The place that a beekeeper places hives to keep honey bees.
One flowery substance often harvested from bee hives.
This type of vertical, stacking hive uses smaller boxes with top bars in each and is named after it's inventor Abbe Emile ____.
A type of honey bee that is the result of genetic crossbeeding at a European Abbey by a monk.
A beekeeper always wants as much free _____ to the place their hives are located without being restricted.
This type of bee is the most common type of honey bee imported in the U.S..
This hive lays ad worked sideways but uses the more modern and common internals of a very common vertical hive.
A unique, nectar derived substance harvested by beekeepers
Potential beekeepers will need to set a certain amount of ____ to properly tend to hives if they intend to be successful.
Several of these beeswax structures make up the place where bees live, raise brood and store food.