NCSBA CERTIFIED EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Crops that benefit from pollination, but do not rely on pollination ANSW✅✅Eggplant
Grape
Lespedeza
Lima bean Okra
Pepper
Soybean
Strawberry
Crops that do not need bees/pollinators ANSW✅✅All leafy greens
• Brassicas: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kohlrabi
• Below ground root veggies and tubers such as carrots, parsnips, salsify, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
horseradish
• Ground level root veggies such as beets, turnips, rutabagas
• Most legumes including peas and beans
• Corn—like other wind pollinated veggies, giving them a little shake helps distribute the pollen.
• Herbs, like the lemon balm pictured
• Celery
• Onions and leeks
Sideliner ANSW✅✅A sideliner is a beekeeper who actively seeks profit from his or her beekeeping
operation while preserving a different source of income at the same time.
Hobbyist ANSW✅✅Hobbyist has survived his or her 2nd winter and typically has between 1 and
25 hives although some hobbyists have up to 50.
Commercial beekeeper ANSW✅✅A commercial beekeeper typically has over 300 colonies and is
engaged in beekeeping for a primary business purpose.
, Parts of a honey bee ANSW✅✅head, thorax, abdomen
Head ANSW✅✅major sensory region, eyes, antennae, sensory hairs, ingests and digests food
How do bees sense? ANSW✅✅visually in compound eye, olfactory via antennae, chewing and
lapping with mandibles and proboscis
Johnson's organ ANSW✅✅flight speed
Footprint galnds ANSW✅✅orientation for workers, inhibition for queen
Communication gland ANSW✅✅mandibular gland, sting gland
Dufour gland ANSW✅✅defense and reproduction, nest recognition in other bees
Three important hormones for molting process ANSW✅✅PTTH, Ecdysone, Juvenile Hormone
How long do drones live? ANSW✅✅Until about fall, when they are ejected or kicked out of the
hive by the worker bees in preparation for winter
Brood comb ANSW✅✅beeswax structure of cells where the queen bee lays eggs. kept in the
bottom of a hive.
Honey comb ANSW✅✅hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain
their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.
Honey flow ANSW✅✅one or more major nectar sources are in bloom and the weather is
favorable for bees to fly and collect the nectar in abundance.
Supersedure cells ANSW✅✅hanging off the middle of the frame, to replace the queen
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Crops that benefit from pollination, but do not rely on pollination ANSW✅✅Eggplant
Grape
Lespedeza
Lima bean Okra
Pepper
Soybean
Strawberry
Crops that do not need bees/pollinators ANSW✅✅All leafy greens
• Brassicas: broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage and kohlrabi
• Below ground root veggies and tubers such as carrots, parsnips, salsify, potatoes, sweet potatoes,
horseradish
• Ground level root veggies such as beets, turnips, rutabagas
• Most legumes including peas and beans
• Corn—like other wind pollinated veggies, giving them a little shake helps distribute the pollen.
• Herbs, like the lemon balm pictured
• Celery
• Onions and leeks
Sideliner ANSW✅✅A sideliner is a beekeeper who actively seeks profit from his or her beekeeping
operation while preserving a different source of income at the same time.
Hobbyist ANSW✅✅Hobbyist has survived his or her 2nd winter and typically has between 1 and
25 hives although some hobbyists have up to 50.
Commercial beekeeper ANSW✅✅A commercial beekeeper typically has over 300 colonies and is
engaged in beekeeping for a primary business purpose.
, Parts of a honey bee ANSW✅✅head, thorax, abdomen
Head ANSW✅✅major sensory region, eyes, antennae, sensory hairs, ingests and digests food
How do bees sense? ANSW✅✅visually in compound eye, olfactory via antennae, chewing and
lapping with mandibles and proboscis
Johnson's organ ANSW✅✅flight speed
Footprint galnds ANSW✅✅orientation for workers, inhibition for queen
Communication gland ANSW✅✅mandibular gland, sting gland
Dufour gland ANSW✅✅defense and reproduction, nest recognition in other bees
Three important hormones for molting process ANSW✅✅PTTH, Ecdysone, Juvenile Hormone
How long do drones live? ANSW✅✅Until about fall, when they are ejected or kicked out of the
hive by the worker bees in preparation for winter
Brood comb ANSW✅✅beeswax structure of cells where the queen bee lays eggs. kept in the
bottom of a hive.
Honey comb ANSW✅✅hexagonal prismatic wax cells built by honey bees in their nests to contain
their larvae and stores of honey and pollen.
Honey flow ANSW✅✅one or more major nectar sources are in bloom and the weather is
favorable for bees to fly and collect the nectar in abundance.
Supersedure cells ANSW✅✅hanging off the middle of the frame, to replace the queen
