ENVS 2210 Introductory Apiculture Midterm-1 honey bee - All Answers are Correct
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ENVS 2210
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Scout bees are: bees that fly in circles or randomly to locate new food sources
Bees as well as humans can see the following colours: blue, green, yellow
Only one of the following statements is true: the “breaking dance” is the signal to leave the hive when
swarming occurs
The main characte...
Scout bees are: bees that fly in circles or randomly to locate new food sources
Bees as well as humans can see the following colours: blue, green, yellow
Only one of the following statements is true: the “breaking dance” is the signal to leave the hive when
swarming occurs
The main characteristic of all traditional hives used until the 17 th century was that: they had fixed combs
Only one of the following statements is true: bees are arthropods
The following is true for Apis dorsata: known as giant, nest on cliffs and trees, migrate for blossoms,
builds a single large comb, all of the above
Bees use the secretion of hypopharyngeal glands to: feed the queen and larvae 3 days old or younger
One of the functions of the exoskeleton on honey bees is: to provide structure and attachment for
organs and muscles
Approximately, how many managed hives of honey bees exist in the world: 55 milllion
What is fat body?: the storage organ for lipid and glycogen
In order to survive an entire year, a colony of honey bees requires approximately: 20-30kg of pollen and
60-80 kg of honey
If a returning forager dances and waggles her abdomen while moving upward (vertically) in straight line
on the comb that indicates that the food source she found is located: towards the suns position
The nervous system of the honey bee is composed of: brain and seven ventral (bottom) ganglia
Fertilized eggs can result in the development of: workers and queens
Segments of honey bee composed of three subsegments: thorax
The correct statement that applies to honey bees: the hind leg ius specialized for pollen packing
A mated queen can lay the following types of eggs: fertilized eggs AND unfertilized eggs
The following is true for drones: drones cannot sting
Worker bees may become precocious (early) foragers if: the older bees in the hive are lost AND the
beekeeper splits a colony and uses only young bees for the new colony
As the larva of honey bee grows, it moults, which means: it changes cuticle
Queen bees produce pheromones which: function as sexual attractant for drones
The jaws of bees are known as: mandibles
,Stinging in honey bees is: mostly a defensive behavior AND fatal to the worker bee
Female bees have: an ovipositor modified to sting AND two pairs of wings AND three major body parts
Which of the following statements is false: beeswax originates from secretions of the thoraxic glands
Behaviour that enables worker bees to perceive colony needs: patrolling
Which of the following statements is true about the queen honey bee: none of the above (reduced
abdomen, 5000 eggs or more per day, mates all year)
The queen honeybee mates more than once with several drones
Age related tasks of worker honey bees usually take place in the following order from first to last: cell
cleaning, brood feeding, comb building, foraging
Only one of the following statements is true: mating between queens and drones only occurs outside the
hive
Bees start clustering together inside the hive when the external temperature drops below 13 degrees C
What type of info is conveyed by the bee performing the wagtail dance: direction AND quality AND
distance to food source
In today’s beekeeping world, Canada excels in: honey yield per colony
During the peak of the blooming season a forager usually lives: 28 to 35 days total
Why do bees show/expose their Nasonov gland: to release hive recognition pheromone to attract
nestmates
Only one of the following statements is true: red blood cells transport oxygen in bees blood THE ANSER
IS C PENIS F DRONE IS KNOWN AEDEAGUS
The regulation of bee behavior in a hive is influenced by: stimuli AND hormones AND genetic
predisposition AND age
The stage during which the developing honey bee undergoes the greatest amount of bodily
differentiation is called: pupa
Only one of the following statements is true: drones are expelled from hives as the weather cools in the
fall
Pupae are characteristic of: holometabolous insects
The most important flow clues that are attractive to bees include: flower scent and colour
In the above diagram, the following are represented: respiratory (screenshot)
,Structure located in the legs that allows the bees to walk on flat surfaces: arolium
The division of labour in a honey bee colony is called: (temporal) polyethism
Guard bees are: become guards before becoming foragers AND determine nestmates by odor
How are bees able to find their way back and return to their hives after foraging?: they memorize
landmarks as they fly
In the honey bee diet, what constitutes the major source of protein?: pollen
Hymenoptera means: none of above (scale, membrane, helicopter, feathery) it mean order to which all
bees belong including ants wasps and parasitic insects
Hormone that influences the cell body differentiation: juvenile hormone
A male bee is a haploid individual because it: carries a single set of chromosomes from his mother
The proventriculus is: a valve regulating passage of food in the honey bee digestive tract
Detractors in von Frish’s interpretation thought….: scent
In order to transform nectar into honey, food-processing bees: evaporate water from nectar AND digest
complex sugars AND add invertase
During what season do honey bee colonies usually swarm: late spring
The sperm in the mature queen is stored in: spermathecal
Robber bees refers to: bees from another hive that try to steal food sources
Spiracles: are openings for in/out flow of air
The pollen basket of a worker bee is: the modified tibia of the hind leg
The main factor that differentiates development of queen and worker bee is: the quality of diet in the
first 3 days of larval development
Flower organs that produce pollen: anthers
Behaviour that enables worker bees to perceive colony needs: patrolling
Worlds two largest honey producers are: China and US
Total development time for: queen 16d, worker 21d, drone 24d
Besides apis millifera, other species of true honey bees include: Apis cerana AND Apis florea
The queen bee mates more than one with several drones
, In which part of the worker bee is the antenna cleaner found?: fore legs
The largest and smalles of the three tpes of comb cells are: queen and worker
Two words used in binomial system of naming: genus and species
Stage of honey bee that contains embryo: the egg
The dorsal plates of the abdominal segments of a bee are known as: tergites
Organ where was is reabsorbed within the digestive system: rectum
Name of the organ of honey bees that functions similarly to kidneys in mammals: Malpighian tubules
Temperature in the nest of a brood rearing colony is: 33-35 degrees C
Bees belong to the following family of insects: Apidae
Bees belong to the order: Hymenoptera
Organ of bees that detect light intensity but do not generate visual images: ocelli
The large compound eyes of the drone are used to: locate the queen in mating congregation area
Supersedure refers to: the replacement of a queen because she does not lay sufficient eggs and/or
produces low amounts of queen substance
Trophallaxis in honey bees means: food pheromone exchange mouth to mouth between adult bees
How many ovaries a queen honey bee has: 2
Haemolymph is composed of: defense cells and plasma
The body hairs of bees are characteristically: branched and trap pollen
How do bees generate heat during the winter: they rapidly relax and contract their thoracic muscles
The five incremental steps through which larvae grow cells are known as: instars
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