JOURNEYMAN BEEKEEPING EXAM
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Arnhart glands ANSW✅✅- chemicals produced known as "footprint" pheromones
- deposited as the bee walks
- used to mark home and food
- attractive to other bees
How many wax glands are found on a honey bee? ANSW✅✅8, 4 sets of 2
Drones never feed themselves. ANSW✅✅False
• converts sucrose to glucose & fructose• converts complex sugars into simpler sugars• aids in the
ripening process of honey• ANSW✅✅invertase (or sucrase )
The drone's antennae are longer than the worker's. ANSW✅✅True
Set of glands responsible for releasing alarm pheromone ANSW✅✅mandibular, sting and
Koschevnikov glands
eclose ANSW✅✅emerge as an adult from the pupa or as a larva from the egg.
Vitellogenin ANSW✅✅Important storage protein found in nurse bees and winter bees
Where is the antenna cleaner located? ANSW✅✅on the basitarsus of the forelegs
What is the difference between queen (royal) jelly and worker jelly? Choose the best response.
ANSW✅✅worker jelly has more fructose, queen jelly has more glucose
, What two glands produce the fluids lavishly fed to worker bee larvae? ANSW✅✅hypopharyngeal
(clear) and mandibular (milky)
When are the wax glands most developed? ANSW✅✅12-16 days after emergence (eclosing)
polariscope ANSW✅✅crystals, dust, bubbles, foam, bits of wax, soot from the smoker, and fibers
from straining honey with cheesecloth
Ocelli ANSW✅✅3 simple eyes that detect light and darkness
sclerites ANSW✅✅Armor plates of the honeybee
Proventriculus ANSW✅✅opens/closes the honey stomach
Tergites ANSW✅✅top plates of the abdomen
sternites ANSW✅✅Bottom abdominal plates
Koschevnikov gland ANSW✅✅produces an alarm pheromone, released when bees sting
Dufor's Glands ANSW✅✅released in vaginal canal onto eggs
Releaser pheromones vs primer pheromones ANSW✅✅Releaser pheremones are fast acting.
Primer pheromones are slow and long term.
Waggle dance ANSW✅✅food over 88 yards. distance, direction, smell/taste, profitability.
Sickle dance ANSW✅✅food is 10 to 30m (11 to 33 yards)
Round dance ANSW✅✅Food is within 88 years (80m).
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
ANSWERS
Arnhart glands ANSW✅✅- chemicals produced known as "footprint" pheromones
- deposited as the bee walks
- used to mark home and food
- attractive to other bees
How many wax glands are found on a honey bee? ANSW✅✅8, 4 sets of 2
Drones never feed themselves. ANSW✅✅False
• converts sucrose to glucose & fructose• converts complex sugars into simpler sugars• aids in the
ripening process of honey• ANSW✅✅invertase (or sucrase )
The drone's antennae are longer than the worker's. ANSW✅✅True
Set of glands responsible for releasing alarm pheromone ANSW✅✅mandibular, sting and
Koschevnikov glands
eclose ANSW✅✅emerge as an adult from the pupa or as a larva from the egg.
Vitellogenin ANSW✅✅Important storage protein found in nurse bees and winter bees
Where is the antenna cleaner located? ANSW✅✅on the basitarsus of the forelegs
What is the difference between queen (royal) jelly and worker jelly? Choose the best response.
ANSW✅✅worker jelly has more fructose, queen jelly has more glucose
, What two glands produce the fluids lavishly fed to worker bee larvae? ANSW✅✅hypopharyngeal
(clear) and mandibular (milky)
When are the wax glands most developed? ANSW✅✅12-16 days after emergence (eclosing)
polariscope ANSW✅✅crystals, dust, bubbles, foam, bits of wax, soot from the smoker, and fibers
from straining honey with cheesecloth
Ocelli ANSW✅✅3 simple eyes that detect light and darkness
sclerites ANSW✅✅Armor plates of the honeybee
Proventriculus ANSW✅✅opens/closes the honey stomach
Tergites ANSW✅✅top plates of the abdomen
sternites ANSW✅✅Bottom abdominal plates
Koschevnikov gland ANSW✅✅produces an alarm pheromone, released when bees sting
Dufor's Glands ANSW✅✅released in vaginal canal onto eggs
Releaser pheromones vs primer pheromones ANSW✅✅Releaser pheremones are fast acting.
Primer pheromones are slow and long term.
Waggle dance ANSW✅✅food over 88 yards. distance, direction, smell/taste, profitability.
Sickle dance ANSW✅✅food is 10 to 30m (11 to 33 yards)
Round dance ANSW✅✅Food is within 88 years (80m).
