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Do you Know - Answers to Quiz Questions
- False
- The whitening of combs along the tops of frames in the brood chamber and
honey supers it is an indication that additional honey supers should be added to the
colony
- False
- Honeybees undergo complete metamorphosis, a life cycle that involves four
developmental stages. The four stages are egg, larva, pupa, and adult.
- True
- The length of the egg stage is the same for all three castes, but the larval
and pupal stages are shortest for the queen, intermediate for workers, and longest for the
drone. Queen development normally takes approximately 16 days, workers 21 days, and drones
24 days.
- False
- Cappings on honey cells are much flatter than worker brood cappings. Worker
cells are sealed with a low domed capping with some variation in the exact shape, a
characteristic that is considered to be under genetic control. The flat wax cappings over
honey are often wrinkled, the wrinkles extending across several cells.
- True
- The average time spent on cell preparation before a queen lays an egg in a
cell following the emergence of a previous occupant is approximately 40 minutes, and
involves from 16 to 29 different bees.
- True
- Good queens lay solid brood patterns with a brood of a similar age grouped
closely together. Old or failing queens neglect to lay eggs in many of the cells.
- True
- The principal function of the larval stage is feeding. During this stage the
larva gains an enormous amount of weight and grows tremendously in size. These two changes
occur while the cell is uncapped.
- False
- Larvae have simple mouthparts which lap up large quantities of food placed
in the larval containing cells by adult nurse bees. The larvae are even able to rotate
within the cells to get to food not placed directly next to their mouths. The 3,000+ nurse
bee visits are necessary to supply adequate supplies of food.
- True
- During the pupal period the larval body is reorganised to form that of the
adult, using stores of the fat body and larval tissues to provide the materials and energy
required for the change. During this change, all of the larval tissues are replaced by
those of an adult.
- B
) 13
- E
) Thoracic salivary
- D
) 24
- A
) 6
- C
) 40,000
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