ss Beekeeping Questions with Correct
Answers 2025
How long has it been in existence? - CORRECT ANSWER -NCSBA founded on January 11, 1917
Which is the largest state beekeeper's association in the USA? - CORRECT ANSWER -NCSBA
What are the various programs and opportunities supported by NCSBA? - CORRECT ANSWER -
NC Zoo
NC State Fair
NCSBA Master Beekeeper Program
Golden Achievement Program, Certified Honey Producer Program,
annual judged contests for hive products and more.
What is the difference between a hobbyist beekeeper, a sideliner; and a commercial operation
? - CORRECT ANSWER -a. Hobbyist - Interest, ecology, and recreation (10 hives or fewer)
b. Sideliner -
Not primary income, but actively markets bee products (tens to low hundreds of hives)
c. Commercial -
Bees as a primary business, pollination, or commercial production of bee products and bees (
200+ hives, or moves bees across State lines)
What do commercial operations do throughout the year? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Pollination and commercial production of bee products and bees
How long has man been harvesting honey (and other products) from honeybees? -
CORRECT ANSWER -Antiquity (9000 BC)
, When did honey bees arrive in the Americas? - CORRECT ANSWER -1621
What are some of the various ways that they kept bees? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Bee gums and skeps
Who is Rev. L.L. Langstroth and what is he most known for? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Identified 'bee space' and developed moveable frame hives
What is Bee Space? - CORRECT ANSWER -⅜" wide
Who is A. I. Root? - CORRECT ANSWER -Involved in forming NCSBA
Who is Charles Dadant? - CORRECT ANSWER -Wrote "First lessons in Beekeeping"
What inventions have modernized beekeeping? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Langstroth Hive, Wax Foundation and Frames, & Smoker
What major events occurred in the US that regulated or changed methods of beekeeping? -
CORRECT ANSWER -
a. 1922 Honey Bee Act passed by Congress (Restricts importation of honey bees into the US)
b. 1967 Buckfast Bees introduced to US (Italian/German stabilized hybrid, resists tracheal mite
s)
c. 1984 Tracheal mites appear in the US
d. 1985 & 1990 Africanized honey bees migrate to US (Originated from Brazil)
Answers 2025
How long has it been in existence? - CORRECT ANSWER -NCSBA founded on January 11, 1917
Which is the largest state beekeeper's association in the USA? - CORRECT ANSWER -NCSBA
What are the various programs and opportunities supported by NCSBA? - CORRECT ANSWER -
NC Zoo
NC State Fair
NCSBA Master Beekeeper Program
Golden Achievement Program, Certified Honey Producer Program,
annual judged contests for hive products and more.
What is the difference between a hobbyist beekeeper, a sideliner; and a commercial operation
? - CORRECT ANSWER -a. Hobbyist - Interest, ecology, and recreation (10 hives or fewer)
b. Sideliner -
Not primary income, but actively markets bee products (tens to low hundreds of hives)
c. Commercial -
Bees as a primary business, pollination, or commercial production of bee products and bees (
200+ hives, or moves bees across State lines)
What do commercial operations do throughout the year? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Pollination and commercial production of bee products and bees
How long has man been harvesting honey (and other products) from honeybees? -
CORRECT ANSWER -Antiquity (9000 BC)
, When did honey bees arrive in the Americas? - CORRECT ANSWER -1621
What are some of the various ways that they kept bees? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Bee gums and skeps
Who is Rev. L.L. Langstroth and what is he most known for? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Identified 'bee space' and developed moveable frame hives
What is Bee Space? - CORRECT ANSWER -⅜" wide
Who is A. I. Root? - CORRECT ANSWER -Involved in forming NCSBA
Who is Charles Dadant? - CORRECT ANSWER -Wrote "First lessons in Beekeeping"
What inventions have modernized beekeeping? - CORRECT ANSWER -
Langstroth Hive, Wax Foundation and Frames, & Smoker
What major events occurred in the US that regulated or changed methods of beekeeping? -
CORRECT ANSWER -
a. 1922 Honey Bee Act passed by Congress (Restricts importation of honey bees into the US)
b. 1967 Buckfast Bees introduced to US (Italian/German stabilized hybrid, resists tracheal mite
s)
c. 1984 Tracheal mites appear in the US
d. 1985 & 1990 Africanized honey bees migrate to US (Originated from Brazil)
