ENVS 2210 Introductory Apiculture MT2_testbank - All Answers are Correct
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ENVS 2210
Institution
University Of Guelph (U Of G
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• The main management activities performed during early spring in overwintered honey
bee colonies are a) feeding them with sugar syrup & b) expanding their brood nest by
reversing hive bodies
• The name of a behaviour in which the colony benefits but the individual worker bee
performing the...
• The main management activities performed during early spring in overwintered honey
bee colonies are a) feeding them with sugar syrup & b) expanding their brood nest by
reversing hive bodies
• The name of a behaviour in which the colony benefits but the individual worker bee
performing the behaviour clearly does not. B) stinging
• The main reason why African honey bees were introduced to south America was a) to
breed them for increased honey production
• What are the most basic functions of a bee hive? d
o A) to protect bees from weather
o B) to allow bees to defend themselves from predators and pests
o C) to allow the beekeeper access to the hive to inspect it/ to harvest bee
products
o D) all of the above
o E) a&b
• Comb is used by honey bees for e
o A) rearing brood
o B) depositing eggs into
o C) storing nectar
o D) storing pollen
o E) all of the above
• In a honey bee colony, the term subfamily refers to
o A) a group of workers having the same father and the same mother
o B) a group of workers having the same father but different mothers
o C) a group of workers having the same mother but different fathers
o D) a group of workers that always perform the same tasks as a family
o E) a group of workers of the same age
• Varroa sensitive hygiene (VSH) bees are a strain of hygienic honey bees resistant to
varroa mites that was developed by US scientists
• Queens and drones mate c) in the air always
• Sister worker honey bees that are daughters of the same father and mother share c) 75%
genes in common
• The following factors favoured the evolution of high defensive behaviour in African races
of honey bees a) human and animal predation of colonies
, • T/F – A. honey bees can rear queens from larvae of egg laying workers. B. Honey bee
queens always lay fertilized eggs. D)both statements are F
• During a colony inspection you notice that there are queen cells being built on the
combs. From that observation you can conclude that d) could be any of the tree above
conditions
o A) the colony is queenless
o B) the colony is superseding the queen
o C) the colony will swarm
o D) could be any of the three above conditions
o E) could only be a & c
• Colony swarming can be prevented by d
o A) supplying the hive with supers to provide space as the colony grows
o B) removing the hive entrance reducer by early spring to provide ventilation
o C) requeening the colony to reduce colony swarming tendency
o D) all of the above
• The most common medicaments used to treat normal sting allergies are c)
antihistamines
• Do crossing over and recombination occur in drone sperm production? A) no, b/c drones
carry a single set of chromosomes and thus chromosome synapsis with homologous
chromosomes cannot occur
• Reproduction at the colony level is initiated by a) a failing or weakening queen
o A) a failing or weakening queen
o B) a few workers developing ovaries and laying eggs
o C) the presence of drones in the colonies
o D) the workers building swarm cells
o E) summer weather
• Queens are excluded from honey supers to keep them from b) laying eggs in the honey
cells
• The hive component that keeps the queen restricted to the brood chamber is called the
c) queen excluder
• After mating, a queen returns to her hive carrying the “mating sign”, that is c) the drone
reproductive organ inserted in her vagina
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