Pollen-tics
This is when you use both truth AND lies to push your hidden agenda.
What is bullshit?
What is spring?
This is a behaviour whereby an organism acts in a manner that temporarily reduces its fitness while increasing another organism's fitness, with the expectation that the other organism will act in a similar manner at a later time
What is reciprocal altruism?
These are the four ways climate change is impacting bees.
What are
-Mismatch between phenology of flowering and bee emergence
(particularly in spring)
•Reduced opportunity for foraging
•Reduced resources provided by flowering plants (also, frost events)
•Heat/cold stress on bees
This scientist was stumped by altruistic behavior by bees and other social insects, they messed with his theory!
Who is Charles Darwin?
Dressed in bee suits and protesting the sale of chemicals outside Lowe's and Home Depots, this environmentalist group set off a chain reaction of bee politics.
What is the Friends of the Earth?
This is the strategy for controlling pests that includes monitoring and keeping the pest below an acceptable level.
What is Integrated Pest Management?
This is any behavior which influences the fitness (# of offspring) of another individual.
What is social behavior?
In Martinez et al's study of thermal tolerance in 39 bumble bee species, they found species from these types of climates could handle hot temperatures for much longer.
What is warmer?
Early entomologist who led foraging preference experiments out of his lab based in a high school.
Who is Charles Henry Turner?
This organization, started in 2014, makes guides, training, and recommendations for beekeepers on how to treat for varroa and manage their colonies. Seems peachy, but they have a darker motivation...
Who is the Honey Bee Health Coalition?
This method of getting bees are easy to obtain very early in the year, but the quality is dubious, and some dub them "bee puppy mills"
What are packages?
This is the "r" or relatedness factor between a honey bee worker and her true sister.
What is 0.75?
After Ziska et al found there was a correlation between decrease in Goldenrod pollen protein content and increase in carbon to nitrogen ratio over time, they did this to test causation.
What is grew goldenrod in chambers with
controlled CO2 levels?
A journalist who started the genetic literacy project, which receives 100k in funding from Bayer annually.
Who is John Entine?
This is what Dave Hackenberg believed to be the catalyst of CCD, based on what he had seen from French beekeepers.
What is Neonicitinoids?
Early in this season, there is no brood so varroa mites are all on adult bees. Beekeepers take advantage of this broodless period to apply an oxalic acid treatment
What is winter?
This is a research method used in many honey bee cognition studies, including the test of "optimism" v "pessimism" in stressed bees. It allows scientists to test a bee's preference for a food source or scent.
What is Proboscis response/ Proboscis Extension Reflex?
In a study of halictus ligatis, queen bees in 1990 (cool, rainy) took more trips/day, but shorter trips. This suggests what about the landscape.
Wrote The Georgics, a book about agriculture. The Fourth book is about the life and habits of bees in which bees are held as a model for human society.
Who is Virgil?
This is the thing that scientists identify as the villain in bee decline.
Trick question! What is nothing?
Also accept: 4p's + climate change
This is the preferred method to test for varroa mites, and though it kills the bees tested, a more accurate count is obtained.
What is an alcohol wash?
This is Hamilton's rule in equation format, it says that the change in an actor's offspring number plus the change in the recipient's offspring times their relatedness will be greater than zero.
what is
m + rn > 0
m = change in actor’s offspring number
n = change in recipient’s offspring number
r = relatedness of actor and recipient
In Mu et al's 2 year study, they used open topped chambers which increased temperatures and evaluated floral traits of Saussurea nigrensens. They found that warming had this effect on flower and nectar quantity.
In about 1654 he developed the tiered wooden
octagonal box which was essentially stacked boxes. This allows the beekeeper to expand the hive and prevent swarming which was a great development.
Who is Sir Christopher Wren?