ENVS 2210-Final Exam/423 Questions
with Answers
What are 3 uses for honey bees? (Unit 1) - -1) honey bees are excellent
biological study subjects
2) honey bees are beneficial and productive insects
3) beekeeping
- Where do the earliest records about beekeeping practices come from? - -
ancient Egypt
- Who thought the queen bee was a king? - -Aristotle
- In what centuries was the scientific basis of beekeeping established? - -
16th and 17th centuries
- Why were bees brought to the New World? - -Because native bees did not
produce large amounts of honey and wax
- Who is known as the 'father of modern beekeeping'? - -Lorenzo L.
Langstroth
- What was different about Lorenzo's new hive? - -Movable frames in which
bees built combs
- What are the main components of the 19th century bee hives? - -Beeswax
foundation
Honey extractor
Queen excluder
- How many hives are maintained by beekeepers globally? - -55 million
hives
- How much honey is produced globally every year? - -over 950 million kg
- How much wax is produced globally every year? - -over 25 million kg
- What country is the world's largest producer and exporter of honey and
royal jelly? - -China
- What hive type is typically use in Africa? - -Traditional hive (fixed combs)
- What countries practice migratory apiculture? (2) - -Australia, New
Zealand
,- What is the average honey yield for a hive in Canada? - -60kg
- What Order are honey bees classified under? - -Hymenoptera
- What kind of insects belong to the Order Hymenoptera? - -those with 4
membranous wings
- What is the only function of a drone? - -to mate with virgin queens during
spring and summer
- What sex are worker bees? - -Females with undeveloped reproductive
organs
- What is it believed that honey bees evolved from? - -a Carnivorous
Sphecoid wasp ancestor
- Where are the oldest fossil records of bees from?, and how old are they - -
Northern Europe, 50 million years old
- What genus do honey bees fall under? - -Apis
- What is the taxonimical name for the honey bee? - -Apis mellifera
- What are 4 common species of honey bee? - -Apis mellifera, Apis florea,
Apis dorsata, Apis cerana
- Are honey bees holometabolous or hemimetabolous? - -holometabolous
- What does it mean that honey bees are holometabolous? - -they pass
through complete metamorphosis
- What is the developmental time for a queen (egg, larva, pupa, total)? - -3,
5.5, 7.5, 16
- What is the developmental time for a worker (egg, larva, pupa, total)? - -3,
6, 12, 21
- What is the developmental time for a drone (egg, larva, pupa, total)? - -3,
7, 14, 24
- What does the interior of a honey bee egg contain? - -cytoplasm, nucleus,
yolk
- What is an instar and how many do honey bees undergo throughout
development? - -Substages separated by the moulting of the cuticle. 5
, - What do nurse bees feed all larvae for the first three days post-hatching? -
-royal jelly
- What larvae continue to be fed royal jelly past 3 days post-hatch? - -queen
larvae
- What do nurse bees feed worker and drone larvae after 3 days post-hatch?
- -Bee bread (pollen and nectar)
- After feeding, what do nurse workers do until larvae become pupae? - -cap
cells with wax
- What controls the metamorphosis of honey bees? - -Hormones
- What are the two hormones that control honey bee development? What do
they do? - -ecdysone (moulting hormone), juvenile hormone (cell division
and body differentiation)
- What is the exoskeleton comprised of? - -hardened plates made of chitin
and protein
- What are functions of the exoskeleton? (4) - -prevents dehydration,
provides protection, provides support, provides attachment for muscles and
organs
- What are the three body segments of a bee? - -head, thorax, abdomen
- What types of eyes do bees have? (2) - -ocelli (simple), compound
- What do ocelli do? - -Detect light intensity, may serve as orientation
during flight
- What are compound eyes composed of? - -arrays of thousands of single
eyes (ommatidia or facets)
- What are facets/ommatidia for? - -detect polarized light, colour vision
- What colours/light waves can bees see? - -UV, blue, green, yellow
- What are the antennae of bees composed of? - -12 segments with sense
organs
- What are sense organs of the antennae called? - -sensilla