Bees

Question 1

Historically, used by

Answer 1

cave dwellers

Question 2

historically: must ___ hive to get honey out

Answer 2

destroy

Question 3

when was the invention of hives, frames, and foundations?

Answer 3

1789

Question 4

to not destroy hive, do we humans invented what?

Answer 4

put foundation in and bees draw honey off of that

Question 5

Before sugar, what did we use as sweetener?

Answer 5

honey

Question 6

Importance to humanity: Direct sources of what?

Answer 6

honey, bee pollen, royal jelly, bees wax

Question 7

Importance to humanity: indirect sources of what?

Answer 7

pollination

Question 8

Livelihood for bees (2023 stats)

Answer 8

• WI: 62,000 colonies
• 2.79 million pounds of honey
• $8.4 million (value production)

Question 9

What is the biggest aspect in production?

Answer 9

POLLINATION

Question 10

Social structure of bees

Answer 10

• queen > drone > worker

Question 11

Queen bee

Answer 11

• mother to all in the hive
• fully functional female
• bigger than other bees (longer and thinner)

Question 12

How many queens per hive?

Answer 12

1

Question 13

lifespan of queen bee

Answer 13

long life (many as possible)

Question 14

Queen produced by feeding ____

Answer 14

• royal jelly
• feed it to a larvae which will turn into a queen

Question 15

what would happen if many queens in hive?

Answer 15

fight till 1 queen left

Question 16

queen is the only bee to ___

Answer 16

lay eggs

Question 17

how many eggs does queen bee lay?

Answer 17

at peak: 2000-3000

Question 18

Drone

Answer 18

male bees

Question 19

Drone: traits

Answer 19

• larger and wider than others
• no stinger, short tongue
• very good antennae
• have best of times and worst of times
• lives life of luxury, BUT fly around and look for virgin queen to mate with
  -> but during fall or during shortage of food, gets pushed out of hive to die

Question 20

Nays of being a drone

Answer 20

during fall or during shortage of food, gets pushed out of hive to die

Question 21

Lifespan of drone

Answer 21

1 season gneerally

Killed in fall

Question 22

drones developed by ___

Answer 22

parthenogenesis

Question 23

Define parthenogenesis

Answer 23

• when UNfertilized egg spontaneously from into a drone
• HAploid egg (one copy of DNA)
• Formation continues like a normal embryo
• result: males really just multiply and deliver queen’s generic material

Question 24

Who determines sex of offspring

Answer 24

Queen

Fertilized egg ->
Unfertilized egg -> drone

Question 25

“a _____ has a grandfather but no father and can have grandsons but no ___”

Answer 25

drone, sons

Question 26

Bee reproduction

Answer 26

* Virgin queen makes mating flight * Several drones mate with her in flight * Queen goes back to hive * Can be done artificially

Question 27

How many drones mate with queen in flight?

Answer 27

several

Question 28

Bees: Who makes the mating flight?

Answer 28

virgin queen

Question 29

if drone mates with queen, what happens to him?

Answer 29

dies

Question 30

Can bee reproduction be done artificially?

Answer 30

yes

Question 31

Queen lays an egg in what

Answer 31

wach cell

Question 32

Bee egg hatches into what

Answer 32

larva

Question 33

workers feed larvae with what?

Answer 33

mixture of pollen and nectar (think about nutrients: pollen is protein source, nectar is sugar)

Question 34

Bee's source of protein and energy?

Answer 34

Protein: pollen Energy: nectar

Question 35

takes __ days for bee pupas to form inside workers' cap cell

Answer 35

12 days

Question 36

It takes ___ days from egg to emerge as adult worker bee

Answer 36

21

Question 37

Makeup of bee workers

Answer 37

-pollen baskets - wax glands - scent glands - barbed stinger - long tongue

Question 38

Which bee is the smallest?

Answer 38

workers

Question 39

which bee is the most abundant?

Answer 39

workers: 3000-60000 per hive

Question 40

What sex is workers?

Answer 40

female, but underdeveloped

Question 41

T/F: A honey bee will die if it stings you

Answer 41

T

Question 42

Bee workers' duties

Answer 42

- wax secretion - brood rearing (brood = baby bees, larvae) - attending to queen - guarding hive entrance - nectar and pollen collection (provides all necessary nutrients for bees (other than water) - bees work both day and night

Question 43

Queen excluder

Answer 43

- screen with spaces that worker bees can go through but queen cannot (she too big) - ut she can't go into upper frames - why: we don't want egg and larvae in the comb if we gonna eat it

Question 44

propolis

Answer 44

"bee glue" - bees will glue tgt frames, fill up a hole

Question 45

Smoker

Answer 45

put stuff in it to burn a bit which bring out smoke - calms bees down and back them off

Question 46

swarming

Answer 46

a way for bees to multiply (1 hive of bees and some leave to start another hive) - important for proliferation of species - causes/reasons: overcrowded hive

Question 47

why would yo not want bees to swarm?

Answer 47

wanna let them make honey where YOU can collect it

Question 48

'methods of preventing swarming

Answer 48

- keep open brood area (add more chambers - keep a productive young queen

Question 49

Bee communication

Answer 49

- the way they DANCE tell other bees where food course are - chemicals: pheromones (smells, scents) -> Each hive have their own unique scent

Question 50

CCD: Colony collapse disorder

Answer 50

- lots of (feral) hives die - Causes: don't know for sure, but proposed: ->GMO plants, pesticides, cell phone radiation, global warming, nosema fungus,