BEEKEEPING QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025-2026
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)
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025-2026
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)
