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Bee and Pollinator Quiz: 12 Questions With Answers
Around three-quarters of the world's leading food crops benefit at least in part from animal pollination. This bee and pollinator quiz has 12 questions on bees, butterflies and the flowers they depend on.
Pollinators were the subject of a Bing Homepage Quiz during Pollinator Week, so you will see some of the same ideas here.
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Bee & Pollinator Quiz Questions and Answers
Every question with its answer and explanation. Open “Show answer” after you guess.
1 Which plant process do pollinators directly support?
- A Photosynthesis
- B Fertilization
- C Transpiration
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✓ Answer: B. Fertilization
Did you know? Moving pollen allows flowers to be fertilized and form seeds.
2 What do honey bees perform to tell others where food is?
- A The hum signal
- B The spiral flight
- C The waggle dance
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✓ Answer: C. The waggle dance
Did you know? The angle of the dance shows direction relative to the sun.
3 Who decoded the honey bee waggle dance?
- A Charles Darwin
- B Jane Goodall
- C Karl von Frisch
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✓ Answer: C. Karl von Frisch
Did you know? He shared the 1973 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
4 Roughly how many bee species exist worldwide?
- A About 20,000
- B About 2 million
- C About 200
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✓ Answer: A. About 20,000
Did you know? Most are solitary bees that do not live in hives.
5 What do bees make honey from?
- A Nectar
- B Tree sap
- C Pollen
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✓ Answer: A. Nectar
Did you know? Bees reduce the water in nectar and add enzymes.
6 Which bee lays all the eggs in a honey bee colony?
- A The drone
- B The worker
- C The queen
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✓ Answer: C. The queen
Did you know? A queen can lay over 1,000 eggs a day in peak season.
7 Which action best supports native pollinators?
- A Using more pesticides
- B Mowing lawns weekly
- C Planting local flowers
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✓ Answer: C. Planting local flowers
Did you know? Native plants provide the food and shelter local pollinators evolved with.
8 Which bird is an important pollinator in the Americas?
- A Hummingbird
- B Penguin
- C Ostrich
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✓ Answer: A. Hummingbird
Did you know? Hummingbirds pollinate many tube-shaped red and orange flowers.
9 Which insect group is often studied to track insect population trends?
- A Termites
- B Cockroaches
- C Butterflies
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✓ Answer: C. Butterflies
Did you know? Butterflies are easy to identify and count, making them good indicators.
10 What are male honey bees called?
- A Scouts
- B Workers
- C Drones
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✓ Answer: C. Drones
Did you know? Drones do not sting and their main role is to mate with a queen.
11 Which famous migrating butterfly travels between Canada, the U.S. and Mexico?
- A Swallowtail
- B Painted lady
- C Monarch
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✓ Answer: C. Monarch
Did you know? Eastern monarchs overwinter in fir forests in central Mexico.
12 What shape are the cells in a honeycomb?
- A Squares
- B Circles
- C Hexagons
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✓ Answer: C. Hexagons
Did you know? Hexagons store the most honey with the least wax.
What pollinators do
Pollination is the transfer of pollen from the male part of a flower to the female part, which lets the plant form seeds and fruit. Bees are the best-known pollinators, but butterflies, moths, flies, beetles, birds such as hummingbirds and even bats also do the job.
Honey bees communicate the location of food with the waggle dance, first decoded by Karl von Frisch, who shared a Nobel Prize in 1973. Many pollinators are declining because of habitat loss, pesticides and disease, which is why planting native flowers is one of the simplest ways to help.
Pollinators in the Bing Homepage Quiz
The June 24, 2026 Bing Homepage Quiz asked which process pollinators support, which insect group is studied to track insect trends and which action best helps native pollinators.
Bee & Pollinator Quiz FAQ
What is the waggle dance?
A figure-eight dance honey bees use to tell hive mates the direction and distance of food.
Do all bees make honey?
No. Most of the roughly 20,000 bee species do not make honey, and many live alone rather than in hives.
How can I help pollinators?
Plant native flowers that bloom across the seasons, avoid pesticides and leave some bare ground or stems for nesting.