Test 2 Flashcards
(32 cards)
Karl von Frisch
conducted lots of research on the bees’ dance language
Adrian Wenner and Patrick Wells
California scientists and noted skeptics of the honey bee dance “language”
James Gould
conducted misdirection experiments to prove that bees use the dance language to communicate where food sources are
queen pheromone transmission
workers groom and lick the queen and it spreads through the colony through touch and trophallaxis
retinue response
workers surround the queen or anything with her pheromone
queen cell
vertical, normally on periphery of brood, queens develop head first
Virgil
thought that eggs rained down from heaven and foragers collected them from flowers
Charls Butler
saw the “king” lay an egg; first to admit it was actually a queen
Jan Swammerdon
anatomically proved that queens were female and drones male; couldn’t figure out how the pieces fit and thought that “association” with drones was necessary for egg-laying
Francois Huber
proved that mating takes place outside of the hive; noticed that the queen’s anatomy had changed when they returned to the hive
Johannes Dzierzon
discovered the spermathecae; drones arise from parthenogenesis
Oertel, Roberts, and Gary
queens mate more than once; captured mating on video
Langstroth hive
a standard beehive
lid
roof of the hive, metal to make waterproof
inner cover
the ceiling
honey super
holds surplus honey which is harvested by the beekeepers; can be more than one; smaller because honey is heavy
queen excluder
too small for the queen to fit through so that queen cannot get into the honey supers, keeps honey clean from brood
brood box
1 or 2 for standard colony, stores brood, pollen, and sometimes honey
bottom board
the floor, has a spacer for the entrance
frames
bees affix combs to the frames, 10 fit in box perfectly with bee space
hive tool
used to work and manipulate hive, scrape off burr comb, etc.
extracted honey
normal, liquid honey
cut-comb honey
a cut piece of the comb
chunk honey
cut comb topped off with extracted
