Sociality
This caste performs brood care, cleaning, building, guarding, and foraging.
What is the worker bee?
This caste is the colony's primary reproductive female.
Who is the queen?
This parasitic mite is considered the greatest threat to honey bee colonies.
What is Varroa destructor?
Honey bees communicate profitable food locations using this famous dance.
What is the waggle dance?
The structure located on the hind leg of the honey bee (and other related insects) used to carry pollen
What is the corbicula (or pollen basket)?
This refers to a colony acting like one big organism rather than as separate entities.
What is a superorganism?
The caste of bee that develops from an unfertilized egg.
What is the drone?
This is a type of fungus that affects the midgut of the bee resulting in dysteria?
What is nosema?
This newly emerged worker bee is often called by this name.
What is the callow bee?
These are the large eyes bees use to detect movement and see patterns.
What are compound eyes?
Honey bee workers perform this sequence of jobs as they age, progressing from nursing brood to foraging.
What is division of labor by age?
This specialized structure allows queens to store sperm for years.
What is the spermatheca?
Honey bees infected by this parasite are often found abandoning the hive at night before they die.
What is the zombie fly (Apocephalus borealis)?
Besides dancing, honey bees communicate extensively through these chemical signals.
What are pheromones?
These are the simple eyes that bees use to detect light intensity.
What are the ocelli?
The equation that describes why social insects help each other.
What is rb > c (where r = relatedness, b = benefit, and c = cost)?
Proteins in seminal fluid can do the following:
What is kill sperm, kill diseases, and change the eyesight of the queen looking for drones?
The disease that results in finding dead, mummified larvae at the hive entrance.
What is chalkbrood?
The behavior where bees link together to build or repair comb.
What is festooning?
When stung what should be the first step to prevent venom delivery?
What is remove the stinger?
This evolutionary concept measures an individual's own reproductive success plus the reproductive success of relatives that share their genes.
What is inclusive fitness?
This type of special wax structure is drawn out by worker bees in the middle of the frame when a queen is ailing or performing poorly.
What is a supercedure cell?
This ongoing evolutionary struggle occurs as parasites evolve while bees develop resistance.
What is the evolutionary arms race?
This behavior involves bees exchanging food mouth-to-mouth.
What is trophallaxis?
This mouthpart allows the bees to drink nectar.
What is the proboscis?