IIB

Question 1

Wing beat frequency of bee

Answer 1

200 cycles/second

Question 2

Thoracic flight temperature

Answer 2

46 degrees Celsius

Question 3

Average flight speed of worker bee

Answer 3

24 km/hour

Question 4

Average flight speed with full nectar loads

Answer 4

6.5 m/sec / 23.4 km/hr

Question 5

Unloaded worker bees average flight

Answer 5

7.5 m/sec / 27 km/hr

Question 6

Bees can no longer fly if

Answer 6

Blood sugar falls below 1%

Question 7

Africanized bees during swarm flights

Answer 7

30 mg of honey (w 20 mg sugars) and fly 60 km

Question 8

The bee’s foreleg

Answer 8

Clean its antennae

Question 9

The bee’s mid-leg

Answer 9

Helps with walking, for packing loads of pollen (sometimes propolis) into pollen baskets

Question 10

A sticky resinous substance from buds of trees and use to seal up cracks of hive; bee glue

Answer 10

Propolis

Question 11

The bee’s hind legs

Answer 11

Contain special combs and pollen press (worker bee); to brush, collect, pack, and carry back into the hive

Question 12

Tiny holes along the sides of bee’s thorax and abdomen, how a bee breathes

Answer 12

Spiracles

Question 13

Which hole does the tracheal mites gain access to the trachea?

Answer 13

First hole in the thorax

Question 14

These are attached to the spiracles

Answer 14

Trachea (breathing tubes)

Question 15

How many abdominal segments?

Answer 15

10 abdominal segments

Question 16

This is the first abdominal segment

Answer 16

Propodeum

Question 17

They are hidden inside the 7th segment

Answer 17

8th (found next to the 7th), 9th, and 10th segment

Question 18

Two additional segments are found in the ?

Answer 18

Worker bee (stinger), Queen and Drone (reproductive organs)

Question 19

These two additional segments are ?

Answer 19

Highly reduced, appear internally as small soft plates

Question 20

A highly modified ovipositor evolved for its defensive function

Answer 20

Bee sting

Question 21

The large basal structure of bee stinger (tapered, protruded sharp-pointe shaft)

Answer 21

Bulb of stylet

Question 22

A solid structure shaft with three separable pieces

Answer 22

One above the stylet, two below the lancets

Question 23

Why do bees die after stinging?

Answer 23

Massive abdominal rupture

Question 24

The stinger left in the skin continues to pump venom for ?

Answer 24

30 - 60 seconds

Question 25

There is lyses of blood and mast cells, also releases histamine and serotonin (mast cells), and depression of blood pressure and respiration, 50 dry weight % in venom

Answer 25

Melittin

Question 26

Cell lyses, there is pain, toxicity; also synergistic with mellitin; 12 dry weight % in venom

Answer 26

Phospholipase A

Question 27

Hydrolyzes connective tissue (spreading factor - opens up passages for other components), non toxic; <3 dry weight % in venom

Answer 27

Hyaluronidase

Question 28

Involved in allergic reaction; <1 dry weight % in venom

Answer 28

Acid phosphatase

Question 29

There is itching, pain; amount of venom is much lower than toxic levels or amount released by mast cells; <1 dry weight % in venom

Answer 29

Histamine

Question 30

Wax production is used for ?

Answer 30

Comb construction

Question 31

How is beeswax produced?

Answer 31

By modified epidermal cells (ventral on 4th - 7th abdominal segments); metabolizing honey in fat cells associated with the wax glands

Question 32

8.4 kg of honey produces 991,000 wax scales and makes up ?

Answer 32

1 kg or 2.2 lb of wax

Question 33

Workers need to eat pollen during ? to secrete wax later on

Answer 33

First 5 - 6 days of their life

Question 34

Chemical composition of beeswax

Answer 34

Hydrocarbons (14%) Monoesters (35%) Diesters (14%) Hydroxy Polyesters (8%) Free Acids (12%)

Question 35

A gland found beneath the tergite of the last abdominal segments (7th)

Answer 35

Nasanov / Scent gland

Question 36

Nasanov gland is used for ?

Answer 36

Orientation at the nest entrance, swarm clustering, water collection sites, possibly at flowers

Question 37

7 chemicals that make up Nasanov scent

Answer 37

Geraniol, Nerolic acid, Geranic acid (7), Citral, (Z) - citral, (E, E) Famsol, and Nerol

Question 38

An enzyme for processing floral nectars into honey and oxidizes glucose into acid

Answer 38

Invertase

Question 39

A brood food produced by the mandibular glands

Answer 39

10-hydroxy-2-decenoic acid

Question 40

It opens at the posterior end into the crop

Answer 40

Esophagus

Question 41

It is an expandable bag that holds honey ingested

Answer 41

Honey Stomach / Crop

Question 42

It is found at the end of crop and prevents most liquid contents from passing through ventriculus or midgut

Answer 42

Proventriculus valve

Question 43

It is where the solid food is digested and nutrients are absorbed

Answer 43

Ventriculus / Midgut

Question 44

It absorbs nitrogenous wastes from blood and pass to intestines for excretion

Answer 44

Malphigian tubules

Question 45

The bee’s circulatory system consists of ?

Answer 45

One dorsal heart and Aorta

Question 46

The blood in the bee’s body cavity does what ?

Answer 46

The cells float freely in blood instead of receiving blood through vessels

Question 47

The one-way valves where blood passes through after entering the heart (single blood vessel in abdominal part)

Answer 47

Ostia

Question 48

They assist in pumping blood to extremities (basis of legs and wings)

Answer 48

Antennal vesicles

Question 49

The function of circulatory system consists of:

Answer 49

Transporting food from midgut to body cells Removing waste material from cells and return to excretory organs Lubricating body movements Provide defense against pathogens using blood cells

Question 50

Do bees have lungs?

Answer 50

No, but they use a system of tubes for breathing

Question 51

This is the system of breathing tubes

Answer 51

Tracheae

Question 52

The tracheae are connected by a series of holes in the cuticle called ?

Answer 52

Spiracles

Question 53

When the bee is inactive, gas exchange operate simply by ?

Answer 53

Diffusion

Question 54

How do bees cope in increased activity for gas exchange?

Answer 54

Pump their abdomens using expanded sacs of trachea as bellows

Question 55

What is the nervous system of bees composed of?

Answer 55

Brain and seven ganglia

Question 56

A queen bee has a well-developed?

Answer 56

Spermatheca and Vagina