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 |   F.I.F.R.A. acronym for Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; a US federal law, enforced by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), that governs the use of these categories of chemical substances for controlling insects, fungus, and rodents |
 Wild honeybees in a bee tree | feral colony a honeybee colony in the wild : not domesticated or cultivated; a honeybee colony having escaped from domestication and become wild See also: Bee Tree |
| | fermentation a chemical breakdown of honey, caused by sugar-tolerant yeast and associated with honey having a high moisture content; typically caused by poor extraction methods that result in mixing uncured nectar with honey or fouling the honey with impurities, or intentionally adulterating the honey with other liquids such as water, presumably to increase the volume for sale |
 An active, laying (fertile) honeybee queen |  fertile queen  See ita queen that has been inseminated, either instrumentally or by mating with a drone; such a queen is able to lay fertilized eggs, which produce either workers or other queens; unfertilized eggs, which a fertile queen may selectively lay, produce only drones |
 A field bee returning to the hive with a full pollen basket  A field bee transferring nectar to a worker bee |  field bees See itworker bees at least three weeks old that work in the field to collect nectar, pollen, water, and propolis The top image shows a field bee returning from foraging, with its pollen basket full of orange pollen. It will scrape this pollen off and deposit it in a honeycomb cell, as shown here. The bottom image shows a field bee transferring the nectar it has collected to a worker bee within the hive. This worker will then deposit the nectar into a honeycomb cell so it can cure into honey. When the nectar is cured into honey, the worker bees will cap the honeycomb cell with beeswax, so the honey is sealed for storage and later use. |
| flash heater a device for heating honey very rapidly to prevent it from being damaged by sustained periods of high temperature |
| follower board a thin board used in place of a frame usually when there are fewer than the normal number of frames in a hive |
 Honey Super | food chamber  See ita hive body filled with honey for winter stores, such as a honey super |
 Plastic comb foundation coated with beeswax | foundation See it See comb foundation |
 Medium (6-5/8" height) super frame | frame See it traditionally, four pieces of wood designed to hold honeycomb, consisting of a top bar, a bottom bar, and two end bars; newer frame designs are one-piece molded frames, and are superior unless pure beeswax foundation is required for cut-comb honey where the honey is not extracted. See also: Beehive Frame, cut-comb honey |
 | fructose See it the predominant simple sugar found in honey; also known as levulose |
| fumagillin See fumidil-B |
 | fumidil-B See it the J. Webster Labs brand name for a water-soluble form of fumagillin, an antibiotic used in the prevention and suppression of nosema disease. Fumidil B is fed in a solution of sugar syrup in the fall and spring to protect over-wintered colonies and is fed in the spring to colonies that are being prepared for package production. See also: Honeybee Medications |
| fume board a rectangular frame that fits on top of a honey super, used to drive honeybees out of supers for honey removal during harvesting. A fume board is covered with an absorbent material such as burlap, on which is placed a chemical repellent to drive the bees down into the brood chamber. BeeCARE recommends using benzaldehyde as the repellant. |
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