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Honey bee races correct answers Cordovan, Russian, Buckfast
European honey bee subspecies correct answers Italian, Caucasian,carniloan ,German, African
Italian honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera liguistica
Caucasian honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera caucasica
Carniloan correct answers Apis mellifera carica
German honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera mellifera
african honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera scutellate
Three species of honey bees correct answers Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, Apis mellifera
eusocial correct answers Cooperative care of young
Reproductive division of labor
Overlapping generations that share same nest
Haploidiploidy correct answers Sex determination system in which males develop from
unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid
queen correct answers Larger than workers
Sole reproductive female in the colony
She will lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day
Life span 1-5 years
drone correct answers Sole function is mating
Reach sexual maturity at two weeks
Die after mating
Holometabolous correct answers Complete metamorphosis
Egg, larva, pupa, adult
Queen biology correct answers Emerge in 16 days
Virgins queens will kill capped queen cells
Multiple queen then will dual
Single virgin survives to mate generally within one week
Queen mate with 12 to 14 drones
Start egg laying one week after mating
queen vs worker development correct answers All female larvae are feed same diet for 3 days
, Queens are continually fed royal jelly- special protein Royalactin, certain 0lant compounds are
absent
By fifth in star , there are significant differences in the developing ovaries between the castes
Widespread apoptosis occurs 8n worker ovaries, which s appears to be mediated in part by
juvenile hormone
Queen Differences from worker bees correct answers Spermatheca
Non barbed stinger
Mate and reproduce
Ovarioles ( 150 per each ovary)
Produce pheromones
Worker difference from the queen correct answers Pollen basket, corbicular hairs
Barbed stinger
In hive tasks and foraging
Cannot mate ( ovarioles 2 to 5 each ovary)
Worker bee tasks( house bees) correct answers 1 to 20 days old
Comb building
Hive cleaning
Brood, queen and drone care
Storing and use of pollen , nectar and propolis
Undertaking
Climate control
Hive guarding
Worker tasks. ( foragers) correct answers 20 days until death ( variable)
Collect nectar for wax production and honey production
Collect pollen for proteins for brood food
Collect water for drinking and climate control
Collect plant resins ( propolis) sealant and anti microbial
When is a new queen raised ? correct answers Swarming - natural process of reproduction,
Supersedure - current queen is replaced due to injury or laying few eggs or drones
Emergency- queen dies and we swashbuckling her
Characteristics of a virgin queen correct answers Moves erratically
Slender
No retinue
Flies readily
Characteristics of mated queen correct answers Moves slowly and predictably
Large abdomen
Retinue present
Will only fly if swarming
Solutions.
Honey bee races correct answers Cordovan, Russian, Buckfast
European honey bee subspecies correct answers Italian, Caucasian,carniloan ,German, African
Italian honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera liguistica
Caucasian honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera caucasica
Carniloan correct answers Apis mellifera carica
German honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera mellifera
african honey bee correct answers Apis mellifera scutellate
Three species of honey bees correct answers Apis cerana, Apis dorsata, Apis mellifera
eusocial correct answers Cooperative care of young
Reproductive division of labor
Overlapping generations that share same nest
Haploidiploidy correct answers Sex determination system in which males develop from
unfertilized eggs and are haploid, and females develop from fertilized eggs and are diploid
queen correct answers Larger than workers
Sole reproductive female in the colony
She will lay 1000 to 1500 eggs per day
Life span 1-5 years
drone correct answers Sole function is mating
Reach sexual maturity at two weeks
Die after mating
Holometabolous correct answers Complete metamorphosis
Egg, larva, pupa, adult
Queen biology correct answers Emerge in 16 days
Virgins queens will kill capped queen cells
Multiple queen then will dual
Single virgin survives to mate generally within one week
Queen mate with 12 to 14 drones
Start egg laying one week after mating
queen vs worker development correct answers All female larvae are feed same diet for 3 days
, Queens are continually fed royal jelly- special protein Royalactin, certain 0lant compounds are
absent
By fifth in star , there are significant differences in the developing ovaries between the castes
Widespread apoptosis occurs 8n worker ovaries, which s appears to be mediated in part by
juvenile hormone
Queen Differences from worker bees correct answers Spermatheca
Non barbed stinger
Mate and reproduce
Ovarioles ( 150 per each ovary)
Produce pheromones
Worker difference from the queen correct answers Pollen basket, corbicular hairs
Barbed stinger
In hive tasks and foraging
Cannot mate ( ovarioles 2 to 5 each ovary)
Worker bee tasks( house bees) correct answers 1 to 20 days old
Comb building
Hive cleaning
Brood, queen and drone care
Storing and use of pollen , nectar and propolis
Undertaking
Climate control
Hive guarding
Worker tasks. ( foragers) correct answers 20 days until death ( variable)
Collect nectar for wax production and honey production
Collect pollen for proteins for brood food
Collect water for drinking and climate control
Collect plant resins ( propolis) sealant and anti microbial
When is a new queen raised ? correct answers Swarming - natural process of reproduction,
Supersedure - current queen is replaced due to injury or laying few eggs or drones
Emergency- queen dies and we swashbuckling her
Characteristics of a virgin queen correct answers Moves erratically
Slender
No retinue
Flies readily
Characteristics of mated queen correct answers Moves slowly and predictably
Large abdomen
Retinue present
Will only fly if swarming
