Across
- 3. ___plastic; Hive designed with plastic outside and foam inside.
- 4. ___ board; The hive floor - sits between the hive stand and the brood box.
- 5. A device used in beekeeping to calm honey bees; generates smoke.
- 9. Specially designed boxes to release honey from the comb.
- 10. Queen ___; Paints a dot of paint on the queen’s thorax.
- 14. ___ board; bees go through easily in one direction but not the other.
- 17. Frame ___ tool; used to space 9 frames evenly in a 10-frame super.
- 18. Protects your mid to upper body from strings.
- 20. Frame ___; Allows beekeepers to hang frames aside the hive.
- 21. ___ outer cover; Langstroth beehive lid that extends over hive sides.
- 22. Frame ___; Used to remove a frame from a brood box or honey super.
- 23. ___ guard; equipment put at the entrance; prevents mice from entering.
- 25. Entrance ___; placed at the entrance that restricts the opening size.
- 26. ___ screen board; bees on one side cannot contact bees on the other.
- 28. Substrate placed in the frame to ‘get the bees started’.
- 29. A handheld tool used in maintaining and inspecting beehives.
- 32. An established colony. More expensive than a package.
- 33. Provides insulation, moisture escapes, helps circulate fresh air.
- 34. ___ box; a small box with burlap and wood shavings; absorbs moisture.
- 35. ___ boxes; Box for the bees to store honey.
- 36. Protects your hands from stings.
Down
- 1. The space in a beehive that the queen lays eggs; a.k.a. “brood chamber”.
- 2. ___ rack; A bottom board - creates air space under the brood chamber.
- 4. A brush that can be used to gently remove bees from a surface.
- 5. A hive no longer legal to use.
- 6. Keeps the hive off the ground.
- 7. Protects your head from stings.
- 8. A structural element in a beehive that holds the comb.
- 9. Vessel used to feed honey bees.
- 11. Classic beehive. Made of wood.
- 12. Free bees, but may carry diseases.
- 13. ___hive; Rectangular boxes stacked from the bottom up.
- 15. Queen ___; Allows for capturing a queen without direct handling.
- 16. ___ board; hard block of sugar that goes into the beehive.
- 19. Trapezoidal-shaped hive.
- 24. ___ screen; prevents robber bees from entering.
- 27. Queen ___; Keeps the queen from entering honey super and laying eggs.
- 30. ___ board; A sloping plane that allows your bees easy access to the hive.
- 31. 3 pound box of honey bees and a caged queen. To NC, from GA and FL.