IID

Question 1

Aristotle’s work is entitled

Answer 1

Historia Animalium (330 BCE)

Question 2

Who further discovered two types of honey bee dances?

Answer 2

Karl von Frisch

Question 3

A type of dance that indicates the food source is close (50 m or < 50 m away) / (within 10 m)

Answer 3

Round Dance

Question 4

A type of dance done if the food source is far away (> 150 m away)

Answer 4

Tail-waggle / Waggle dance

Question 5

The bee runs in a small circle over 6 adjacent cells, reverses, and returns

Answer 5

Round dance

Question 6

The bee runs in a straight line, returns in a semicircle, runs again, and runs on the other side

Answer 6

Tail-waggle dance / Waggle dance

Question 7

What does waggle dance indicate?

Answer 7

Direction of the source
Distance proportional to the distance of the source
Buzzing

Question 8

In a waggle dance, there is little wagging and no buzzing which indicates?

Answer 8

Low Sugar

Question 9

In a waggle dance, there is pronounced wagging and loud buzzing which indicates?

Answer 9

High sugar

Question 10

In a waggle dance, direction is shown as

Answer 10

Angle of waggle run

Question 11

In a waggle dance, distance is shown as

Answer 11

Number of waggles per run/sec per run
Dance Tempo (# of circuits / circular per unit time)

Question 12

In a waggle dance, quality is shown as

Answer 12

Duration of dance (total waggle runs)

Question 13

In a waggle dance, taste and smell is shown as

Answer 13

Free samples (from dancer)

Question 14

A type of flight bees do preceding their first foraging fights

Answer 14

Orientation flights

Question 15

How is orientation flight performed?

Answer 15

Young bee fly a short distance in front, turn by about 180 degrees facing the hive, then hover back & forth in arcs

Ever increasing circles around & above the hive and after few minutes, the bee returns to the hive

Question 16

When do orientation flights tend to take place?

Answer 16

Warm windless afternoons

Question 17

How about those “foragers to be” during orientation flights?

Answer 17

They void their feces / fecal matter

Question 18

This is generated internally by the animal and is independent of its immediate surroundings

Answer 18

Egocentric information

Question 19

This includes landmarks and any map information available to the animal

Answer 19

Geocentric information

Question 20

Path integration is an example of this information (uses internal calculations of distance & direction travelled)

Answer 20

Egocentric information

Question 21

In one day, a honey bee can visit up to how many flowers for nectar and pollen?

Answer 21

10,000 flowers

Question 22

How many flowers is needed to make one pound of honey?

Answer 22

One million flowers

Question 23

50 kg of honey is equivalent to how many kg of pollen?

Answer 23

1 kg

Question 24

What does water do during hot days?

Answer 24

Regulate the hive temperature via collecting water and pouring it on the body of fanning bees

Question 25

Another purpose of water in nurse bees?

Answer 25

For producing liquid food to feed larvae on cool days

Question 26

Working cooperatively with thousands of honey bees as part of a huge colony known as ?

Answer 26

Superorganism

Question 27

What does red color looks like to honey bees?

Answer 27

Black

Question 28

These colors are what honey bees find most appealing?

Answer 28

Blue, Purple, and Yellow

Question 29

These are bees’ light sensors

Answer 29

Ocelli / three small eyes

Question 30

These eyes are for sight

Answer 30

Compound eyes / 2 large eyes

Question 31

When it is too hot, bees will cluster outside the hive at night (near and above the hive entrance (foraging bees))

Answer 31

Bearding

Question 32

Purpose of bearding

Answer 32

Maintain the inside temperature of hive (90 - 97 degrees Fahrenheit or 32 - 36 degrees Celsius) Reduce moisture of nectar (17% - 21%) by allowing more airflow inside the hive

Question 34

Bees use their wings for cooling hive down and direct returning of foragers

Answer 34

Fanning

Question 35

Bees vibrate their wings and their abdomen is directed upward to allow the release of Nasanov pheromone for?

Answer 35

Informing the foraging bees to their hive correctly

Question 36

Bees rock back and forth across the hive entrance with their legs, antennae, and mouthparts touching the hive as they go

Answer 36

Wash boarding

Question 37

Purpose of wash boarding

Answer 37

Cleaning the hive entrance, releasing Nasanov and tarsal pheromones for foraging bees to find the hive entrance

Question 38

What does the queen bee do to her rival?

Answer 38

Kills any rival to ensure colony survival

Question 39

Bees at the entrance of the hive are flying in and out, wrestling each other at the hive entrance and in the ground

Answer 39

Robbing

Question 40

Robbing occurs due to

Answer 40

When food is scarce during rainy season

Question 41

A natural behavior for honey bees colony multiplication

Answer 41

Swarming

Question 42

During swarming, the worker bee and queen bee ?

Answer 42

Worker bees gorge themselves full of honey Queen is deprived of food for a few days so it can fly

Question 43

When does swarming usually occur

Answer 43

10:00 AM to 2:00 PM

Question 44

When does defecation marks show on the hive surface?

Answer 44

If bees are sick with Nosema disease

Question 45

Colors that are not intimidating to worker bees

Answer 45

White, Blue, Purple, Yellow, Green

Question 46

Three flower colors that bees do not like

Answer 46

Red, Black

Question 47

Colors honey bee can see

Answer 47

Blue, Purple, Yellow