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Africanized Honey Bee Fact Cards Answer Sheet

1. False - Individual honey bees cannot survive on their own, not even the queen.

2. False - Africanized honey bees are slightly smaller than European honey bees.The difference is so slight, however, that only a expert using special equipment can tell them apart.

3. False - Honey bees can sting only once. Wasps and other types of bees may sting many times, because they do not leave their stinger behind.

4. True

5. True - Bees are essential for pollination of a number of crops, including melons, citrus, sweet cherries and almonds. Farmers often hire beekeepers to move bees into their fields when the crops are flowering.

6. True - It best to run to shelter.

7. True - Honey bees nest in a variety of sites including overturned flower pots, hollow pillars, and water valve boxes in the ground.

8. False - Bees fly over 55,000 miles to produce a pound of honey.

9. True - Bees pick up pollen as well as nectar when they visit flowers. The pollen is formed into a ball with other ingredients and placed into the cells of the comb for the imma ture bees to eat.

10. False - Comb is made of six-sided cells or hexagons.

11. False - Only FEMALE bees can sting.

12. True - Honey bees have two large compound eyes and three small simple eyes or ocelli.

13. False - Honey bees were brought to the United States by early settlers from Europe, which is why our common garden bees are called European honey bees.

14. True

15. False - Africanized honey bees do make honey.

16. True