The Bee Book: Criss Cross(Medium)

Answer clues based on the content and vocabulary words from The Bee Book. Look for hints in the Word Bank. Print the puzzle or use on your tablet, phone, or computer.
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Across

  • 3. A powder made by flowers, food for baby bees
  • 6. A sweet, sticky liquid made by flowers
  • 10. The process of moving pollen from one flower to another that helps flowers reproduce and helps crops to grow
  • 12. An artificial bee developed by scientists to help solve the problem of bee decline
  • 13. Used by honeybees to make hexagonal cells that make up a honeycomb
  • 15. Where the colony of honeybees lives
  • 16. Male bees who are pushed out of the hive in the fall
  • 17. Humans who keep bees in beehives and understand how bees work
  • 18. Lower numbers of bees caused by climate change, loss of habitat, disease, and pesticides

Down

  • 1. How bees communicate inside the hive to let each other know where the best flowers are
  • 2. Made from collected nectar, food for bees and people
  • 4. Mother to most of the bees in the hive
  • 5. A large group of honeybees flying together
  • 7. A large group of honeybees that live together
  • 8. Animals who move pollen from flower to flower
  • 9. Where beekeepers keep their bees
  • 11. A special scent the queen bee gives off to let the colony know she is alive and healthy
  • 14. Female bees who clean, guard the hive, and make honey

Word Bank

colony
nest
pollen
nectar
beeswax
honey
beekeepers
beehives
queen bee
queen scent
worker bees
drone bees
pollination
pollinators
waggle dance
swarm
bee decline
robobee