Test 3

Question 1

bee traps

Answer 1

capture one or more bees, then release and follow to find hive; deer or other horn

Question 2

honeyguides

Answer 2

leads other animals (honey-badgers) to bee nests; multiple species in Africa and Asia

Question 3

clay or log hives

Answer 3

simple fixed-comb hives, earthenware jars or hollowed tree trunks; often had “backdoors” to harvest honeycombs

Question 4

gum hives

Answer 4

type of upright log hive; usually had a “roof” and internal support structures; popular until 20th century

Question 5

box hives

Answer 5

simple, no internal support for combs; less primitive, but still fixed-comb

Question 6

skep hives

Answer 6

typically made from straw with support sticks to hold the comb

Question 7

top-bar hives

Answer 7

1 move-able comb hive; slats of wood on the top that the bees would build off of

Question 8

leaf hives

Answer 8

had frames that opened and were inspected like a book

Question 9

4 important modern inventions

Answer 9

Langstroth hives, wax foundation, bellowed smoker, radial honey extractor

Question 10

Zeus

Answer 10

got Kronos drunk on mead

Question 11

melissae

Answer 11

sacred bees, cared for Zeus along with a sacred goat

Question 12

Dionysus

Answer 12

the god of mead, wine, and the vine

Question 13

Aristoeus

Answer 13

god of bees and honey

Question 14

Cupid

Answer 14

dipped his arrows in honey

Question 15

Cerberus

Answer 15

could be passed by if thrown honey cakes

Question 16

the ox-born bee

Answer 16

common belief that bees were spontaneously generated from dead oxen

Question 17

tanging

Answer 17

belief that swarms of bees would land if a loud noise was made

Question 18

telling the bees

Answer 18

belief that bees must be told of the death of their keeper or they would swarm away

Question 19

Ancient Egypt

Answer 19

one Pharoah would only take tax payments in honey

Question 20

Buddhism

Answer 20

honey comb offered to Buddha

Question 21

the Quran

Answer 21

bees are mentioned, also honey is healing and a blessing

Question 22

Christianity

Answer 22

bees and honey mentioned in the Bible, beeswax candles used in church

Question 23

Saint Ambrose

Answer 23

a swarm of bees landed on his cradle but did not sting him when he was an infant