The first nine questions require a true or false answer, the remaining five are multiple choice. (answers).

1. When a colony begins to whiten the combs along the tops of the frames of the brood chamber or supers with newly secreted wax, it is an indication that they are making preparations to swarm.
2. The honey bee life cycle is an example of an incomplete metamorphosis
3. Queen bees develop faster than workers and drones
4. Wax cappings that cover worker brood cells are flatter than the cappings on honey cells
5. Several house bees are involved in preparing a cell for the queen after a new adult bee emerges from it
6. A queen with a good brood pattern has laid in almost every cell within the brood area and has brood of a similar age grouped closely together
7. The larval stage occurs in an uncapped cell
8. Honey bee larvae are unable to feed themselves & require over 3000 nurse bee visits
9. Larval tissues break down during pupation and are transformed into adult tissues
10. The honey bee larva is composed of a head and __ segments?
    A: 10; B: 13; C: 12; D: 8; E: 9
11. The silk glands of the larval honey bee are the forerunners of the __ gland(s) in the adult honey bee?
    A: wax; B: brood-food; C: dorsal scent; D: mandibular; E: thoracic salivary
12. Honey bees moult about every __ hours during the first fours days of larval life?
    A: 16; B: 8; C: 32; D: 24; E: 48
13. During honey bee development, moulting (the skin splits over the head and slips of the posterior end) occurs __ times?
    A: 6; B: 2; C: 8; D: 4; E: 9
14. The maximum egg production of a queen is reached when colony populations are at __ bees
    A: 20,000; B: 30,000; C: 40,000; D: 50,000; E: 60,000