Anatomy
What are the 3 parts of a bee's body?
The head, thorax, abdomen.
Name the three bees you'll find in a hive.
Queen, drone, and worker
What is bee bread made out of?
A fermented mixture of collected pollen and nectar or honey.
What is the smoker used for in a bee hive?
It is used to make the bees believe they need to eat up because there is possibly a fire, which causes them to feel lazy because of the digestion and essentially relax or lack energy.
What is the shape of the bee cells?
A hexagon
What is a brood?
Immature bees that have not emerged from their cells.
Name in order the jobs a worker bee will do in its life.
Cleaner, nurse, construction, guard, forage.
What is clarifying?
Removing visible foreign material from honey or wax to increase its purity.
Describe the process of getting honey from a hive.
What is a bee's tongue like structure?
Proboscis
How do bees keep the queen warm during winter?
They will rotate in a cluster, outside bees that are the coldest rotate inward where it is warmer. Will kick out the drones. Also enter a reduced metabolic state.
What predominant simple sugar is found in honey?
Fructose
What is comb foundation?
It is a thin sheet of wax or plastic that beekeepers place inside the wooden frames of a beehive. It usually has a hexagon pattern stamped into it, just like real honeycombs.
What are the 3 stages of bee metamorphosis in order?
Egg, larva, pupa.
What is supersedure?
The natural replacement of an established queen by a newly reared queen in the same hive.
How many pounds of honey does it take for how many pounds of wax?
6lbs of honey for 1lb of wax
What is a grafting tool?
A needle or probe designed for transferring larvae from worker cells to queen cells
What body part, if used by a bee, will kill the bee?
Stinger
What 3 reasons make bees Eurosociality?
1. Cooperative care of offspring
2. Overlapping generations
3. Division of labor
The color and flavor of honey change depending on the type of these.
Flowers or plants
How do we introduce a new queen into a colony?
Transport the queen and few attendants in a queen cage, block the opening of the cage with a piece of gummy candy and place the cage in the hive. The workers will free the queen in about three days if they accept her.