Craig's Crossword Puzzle (hint: I give you A,B,C &D)

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1       2     3D       4B            
5A                                  
                    6             7
      8                            
                                   
                    9     10        
    11                              
  12                                
      13                            
                    14              
                                   
15                   16              
                                   
              17                    
                                   
                18                  
                                   
19C                                  

 

ACROSS

4. Receptacle used for housing a colony
5. Also called bee yard
6. Honey wine
8. The family unit in a hive
9. The thin wax covering over honey
11. Moving a worker larva from its cell to a queen cup
13. Natural food source of bees
14. To divide a colony to increase total hives
15. Time when there is no available forage for bees
16. The stage of development a bee is sealed in its cocoon
17. Plant resins collected and modified by bees
18. Combining two or more colonies to form a larger colony
19. A spring-time disease affecting bee larvae
 

 DOWN

1. Bees trying to kill a queen who is unacceptable
2. Immature stages of bees
3. Rapid dying off of old bees
4. Substance secreted from special glands on the underside of the abdomen
7. A large group of bees hanging together
10. The transfer of pollen from the anthers to the stigma of flowers
12. A metal container with attached bellows