Honey Bee Biology And Behavior

Question 1

What is the Apis Mellifera

Answer 1

Scientific name for the western honey bee

Question 2

What is the apis cerana?

Answer 2

The scientific name for the Eastern honey bee

Question 3

What kingdom is the Honey Bee in?

Answer 3

Animalia

Question 4

What phylum are Honey Bees in?

Answer 4

Arthopoda (exoskeleton and jointed legs)

Question 5

What class are Honey Bees?

Answer 5

Insecta (insects which have 3 body segments, 6 legs and wings)

Question 6

What order are honey bees in?

Answer 6

Hymenoptera ( related to ants, bees, and wasps which have membrane-like wings)

Question 7

What family are honey bees in

Answer 7

apidae (true bees with branched hairs and eat pollen

Question 8

What genus is honey bees in?

Answer 8

Apis ( Bees maintain colonies that live year to year (perennial), build wax comb to raise brood and store food, has 9 species worldwide

Question 9

Greek meaning of Mel

Answer 9

Honey

Question 10

Greek meaning of fera

Answer 10

Bearing

Question 11

What is the honey bees closest relative?

Answer 11

Apis Cerana- Eastern Honey Bee

Question 12

What is Apis Cerena?

Answer 12

Eastern Honey Bee

Question 13

What is Flower Fidelity?

Answer 13

A bee visits only one kind of flower on a given foraging trip. They focus on most productive and abundant flowers.

Question 14

How are Honey Bees important to the ecosystem?

Answer 14

They are critical pollinators. Capable of pollinating many flowering plants.

Question 15

What are three honey bee products most important to early civilizations?

Answer 15

Honey (main sweetener), mead (honey based alcohol was ceremonial), bees wax (candles provided light indoors)

Question 16

Honey Bees provide over $________billion in crop value to Us Agriculture and over $_______billion worldwide

Answer 16

15, 200

Question 17

How many body segments do bees have? What are they?

Answer 17

3. Head, thorax, abdomen

Question 18

What is Ocelli?

Answer 18

The 3 primitive eyes that bees have on the top of their head. They sense daily and seasonal rhythms. Lights on vs. lights off.

Question 19

How many compound eyes do bees have?

Answer 19

2 and they can see 360 degrees

Question 20

How many ocelli do bees have

Answer 20

3

Question 21

How many antenna do bees have?

Answer 21

2

Question 22

What do bees use their antennas for?

Answer 22

Smell, touch, vibrations
To find food, communicate with nest mates, measure distances and determine air speed.

Question 23

Which bee eyes see color and movement?

Answer 23

Compound

Question 24

What light can bee see and humans can’t?

Answer 24

Ultraviolet light

Question 25

What do bees use to chew solids like wax, pollen, and wood?

Answer 25

Mandibles

Question 26

What are mandibles?

Answer 26

Scissors objects on bees head used to chew up solids

Question 27

What is Proboscis?

Answer 27

Flexible tongue and straw to suck fluids. It’s retractable when not used

Question 28

Emits venom which is used to defend the colony

Answer 28

Stinger

Question 29

What gland Produces the material used to build honey comb

Answer 29

Wax gland

Question 30

Senses color, contracts, and movement.

Answer 30

Compound eyes

Question 31

Part of hind leg used to carry pollen or tree resin back to hive

Answer 31

Pollen basket (corbicula)

Question 32

What is corbicula?

Answer 32

Pollen basket on hind legs

Question 33

Used to sense vibrations, wind speed, small, and measure spaces

Answer 33

Antenna

Question 34

Senses light intensity, used in daily and seasonal rhythms

Answer 34

Ocelli

Question 35

What gland Aids in digestion (dissolve sugars, softening wax, add enzymes to honey

Answer 35

Salivary glands

Question 36

What gland Produces brood food secretions fed to larvae

Answer 36

Hypopharyngeal glands

Question 37

Gland: In workers it produces royal jelly and produces alarm pheromone in queen it also produces Queen Mandibular Pheromone QMP

Answer 37

Mandibular glands

Question 38

How many wings do bees have

Answer 38

4

Question 39

On the back emits pheromone into air to attract nest mates smell like lemon grass. Workers lift abdomen and fan wings to spread

Answer 39

Nasonov gland

Question 40

Smallest and most numerous of colony. Makes up 90-95%

Answer 40

Workers

Question 41

What gland do workers use to convert nectar into honey

Answer 41

Salivary glands with inverters

Question 42

Days in egg for worker bee

Answer 42

3

Question 43

Days in egg for drone?

Answer 43

3

Question 44

Days in egg for queen

Answer 44

3

Question 45

Amount of time a worker is a larva

Answer 45

6

Question 46

Amount of time a drone is a larva

Answer 46

6.5

Question 47

Amount of time a queen is a larva

Answer 47

5.5

Question 48

Amount of time worker is a pupa

Answer 48

12

Question 49

Amount of time a drone is a pupa

Answer 49

14.5

Question 50

Amount of time a queen is a pupa

Answer 50

7.5

Question 51

How many days does it take to worker to hatch

Answer 51

21

Question 52

How many days does it take a drone to hatch

Answer 52

24

Question 53

How many days does it take a queen to hatch

Answer 53

16

Question 54

What day is a a worker cell capped

Answer 54

9

Question 55

What day is a drone cell capped

Answer 55

10

Question 56

What day is a queen capped

Answer 56

8

Question 57

All stages of development is considered what

Answer 57

Brood

Question 58

Who produces wax and builds comb

Answer 58

Worker

Question 59

Who produces sperm

Answer 59

Drone

Question 60

Who feeds brood

Answer 60

Worker

Question 61

Who defends colony

Answer 61

Worker

Question 62

Who cleans comb and inside of hive

Answer 62

Worker

Question 63

Who lays eggs

Answer 63

Queen

Question 64

Who forages for resources

Answer 64

Worker

Question 65

Who produces royal jelly

Answer 65

Worker

Question 66

Who produces pheromones that regulate worker development and swarming

Answer 66

Queen

Question 67

Who removes dead bees and diseased larva from hive

Answer 67

Workers

Question 68

Who regulates temperature of hive

Answer 68

Wokers

Question 69

Who converts nectar into honey

Answer 69

Workers

Question 70

What is propolis

Answer 70

It’s collected from an array of plants and used to seal gaps less then 1/4th an inch. Also can encapsulate foreign debris and it is an antiseptic

Question 71

What is put in spaces greater then 3/8th inch

Answer 71

Comb

Question 72

What approximate temperature is the brood agree of a hive

Answer 72

93degrees

Question 73

How do bees keep brood warm when it is cool outside

Answer 73

Clustering. Getting together and vibrate their muscles

Question 74

How do bees cool the hive

Answer 74

Evaporate water, . Fanning wings. Bearding- going outside and hanging out

Question 75

What is bee bread

Answer 75

Slightly fermented pollen. Gives them proteins, fats, and vitamins

Question 76

What food supplies carbohydrates and energy needed to heat hive

Answer 76

Nectar and honey stores

Question 77

How does a forager tell others a location

Answer 77

Vigor and length of waggle run

Question 78

How old do workers produce brood food

Answer 78

5 days

Question 79

How old are workers when they become foragers

Answer 79

18-21 days

Question 80

Colonies reproduce by________

Answer 80

Swarming

Question 81

Workers replace failing or lost queen by a process called

Answer 81

Supersedure

Question 82

T or F swarm cells develop along edge of the comb and suspersedure cells cells develop in the middle of brood area

Answer 82

True

Question 83

Qmp does what

Answer 83

Suppresses ovary development of workers and drives nurse bees to develop into foragers

Question 84

Alarm pheromone does what

Answer 84

Recruits workers to defend colony and marks predators as a target for defense

Question 85

Brood pheromone does what

Answer 85

Stimulates foraging, stimulates hypopharyngeal glands in workers, suppresses ovary development in workers

Question 86

Nasonov pheromone does what

Answer 86

Causes workers to gather aggregate to find hive

Question 87

Larva passes through ___ molts

Answer 87

5

Question 88

Workers get capped after __ molts

Answer 88

4

Question 89

What’s the colony’s most valuable resource?

Answer 89

Drawn comb

Question 90

Part of hive that Is used to raise brood, store food, control temperature

Answer 90

Drawn comb

Question 91

To build and maintain the nest honey bees must collect (4)

Answer 91

Water, propolis, nectar, pollen

Question 92

Bee’s use what to dissolve honey and cool their hive

Answer 92

Water

Question 93

Where do bees typically nest?

Answer 93

Elevated tree cavities with narrow entrances

Question 94

What is bee space?

Answer 94

Bees maintain spaces between combs. Gaps smaller than 1/4” are filled with propolis. Gaps larger then 3/8th inch are filled with wax comb

Question 95

Worker bees keep brood area close to ____ degrees for optimal development

Answer 95

93

Question 96

How do bees heat the hive

Answer 96

They cluster and vibrate their flight muscles over the brood

Question 97

How do bees cool their hive

Answer 97

Collecting water and fanning ventilating the hive and bearding.

Question 98

What is bearding

Answer 98

They exit the hive to help cool the hive

Question 99

Where does propolis come from?

Answer 99

Collected from an array of different plant sources

Question 100

What is propolis used for?

Answer 100

Used to seal crevices less then 1/4inch, encapsulate foreign debris, antiseptic properties

Question 101

How is nectar turned to honey

Answer 101

Bees collect nectar from flowers and remove moister and add enzymes so it will not ferment

Question 102

Workers cap honey when it’s reaches below ___% water

Answer 102

18.6

Question 103

Honey is mostly what!

Answer 103

Sugars (carbohydrates)

Question 104

Honey bees must visit about __million flowers to make 1lbs of honey

Answer 104

2

Question 105

Bees eat _______ to get protein and other nutrients

Answer 105

Pollen

Question 106

What food is most critical when bees are raising brood

Answer 106

Pollen

Question 107

Bees combine ______,______,____ to make bee bread

Answer 107

Nectar, pollen, water

Question 108

Is bee bread capped or uncapped

Answer 108

Uncapped

Question 109

How do foragers communicate where resources is located

Answer 109

Dance

Question 110

What’s an orientation flight?

Answer 110

Short spiraling flights to learn landmarks around the hive

Question 111

What is drawn comb used for?

Answer 111

Raising brood and storing food

Question 112

Brood is located in the ________ of the hive

Answer 112

Center

Question 113

Bee bread is located next to ________

Answer 113

The brood area

Question 114

______ is stores over top of slides of the brood area

Answer 114

Honey

Question 115

What job do younger workers do?

Answer 115

Nurse /house bee duties

Question 116

What jobs do middle age workers do?

Answer 116

Guard bee duties

Question 117

What job do older workers do?

Answer 117

Forage

Question 118

What age are workers able to produce wax?

Answer 118

5 days

Question 119

What is the ultimate goals of the bee colony

Answer 119

Collect resources and build the nest, To grow the colony, survive the winter and dearth’s, reproduce each year by swarming.

Question 120

What are dearth’s

Answer 120

Periods where there are low amounts of nectar