1. The chief value of the beekeeping industry to the U.S. economy is attributed to:
   
   1. Honey Production
   2. Wax Production
   3. Pollination of agricultural crops
   4. Venom production
   5. Royal Jelly production


2. Honey bees are native to North America. (True or False)


3. The most common race or strain of honey bee in the U.S. is:
   
   1. Caucasian
   2. Carniolan
   3. Buckfast
   4. Midnite
   5. Italian


4. What strain of honey bees that are known for rapidly reducing brood production when the honey flow ceases?
   
   1. Italian
   2. Caucasian
   3. Midnite
   4. Buckfast
   5. Carniolan


5. Carniolan honey bees typically build more queen cells than either the Italians or Caucasians. (True or False)


6. Which race of honey bees has the longest tongue, thusly are excellent pollinators of deep flowers such as red clover.
   
   1. Cyprian
   2. Italian
   3. Caucasian
   4. Carniolan
   5. Egyptian

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Quiz Answers:

1. C Pollination of agricultural crops


2. False There were no honey bees in North or South America prior to the migration of Europeans t these continents. The earliest references to the introduction of honey bees into the United Sates was 1622 in Virginia. These might have been the German Brown Honey Bee. The Spaniards introduced the Iberian Honey Bee to Central and South America in the mid 1500's.


3. E Italian honey bees


4. E Carniolan


5. True Some strains of bees build more queen cells than others. The number of queen cells produced is highly variable in relation to colony strength and whether the colony is superseding their old queen or preparing to swarm. Carniolan bees typically build more queen cells than the Italians or Caucasians.


6. C Caucasian