10 Marks Flashcards
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Name one EXOCRINE gland in the head of a bee.
Mandibular
Hypopharyngeal
Termite
Nasanov
Where does the queen store sperm?
Spermatheca
What name is given to the individual elements of the compound eye?
Ommatidium
What’s the function of the MICROPYLE?
Allow male gametes to enter the egg
What’s the name of the valves of the bees heart?
Ostia
Where is the fibular found?
Legs
How many ANNULI are there in the FLAGELLUM of a worker bee?
10
Where are the HAMULI to be found?
Wings
What is produced at the TERGUM of A7 on a worker bee?
Nasanov pheromone
What is the function of the MALPIGHIAN TUBULES?
Store waste
How many MALPIGHIAN TUBULES does a larva have?
4
Where on the honey bees body is the arolium?
Foot
Where are the umbrella values located on the honey bee?
Sting
How many OSTIA does the honey bee heart have?
5 pairs
Name the alarm pheromone not produced in the sting.
Mandibular
2 heptanone
Name one muscle which powers flight.
Dorsoventral
Longitudinal
What is an ENDOCRINE gland?
Excrete internal hormones
What is an exocrine gland?
Excrete external hormones
Name the storage organs for sperm in the drone.
Vesiculae seminales
Which gland produces melittin?
Venom gland.
Name an enzyme that is added to the nectar by the foraging bee from the hypopharyngeal gland.
Amylase
Name the value at the anterior of the ventriculus.
Proventriculus
Precisely where on the bee is the labellum (flabellum) located?
End of the proboscis
How many pairs of spiracles does an adult bee have?
10
Juvenile hormone is secreted by what organ?
Corpora Allata
Name one type of flight muscle.
Dorsoventral
Longitudinal
How many ocelli does the queen have?
3
Where in the bee is the ARNHART gland?
Feet
5tarsome of each leg
Name the hard substance which gives the cuticle of the bee it’s dark colour.
Sclerotin
Which section of the hind leg if the worker carries the Corbicular?
Tibia
Name the enzyme that breaks down starch
Amylase
Distase
How many ommatidium in the compound eye
5-6000 in each compound eye
How many MALPIGHIAN TUBULES is an adult
100
What is the arolium?
Soft pad between claws
What food encourages queen large to eat more?
Sugar
Where is white larval food produced?
Mandibular gland
Main component of venom?
Melittin
How many sections does a worker FLAGELLUM have?
10
Name 2labial glands.
Post Cerebral
Thoracic
Constriction between thorax and abdomen
Petiole
Which organ is smaller in summer than winter?
Hypopharyngeal glands
What cells produce wax in the fat body of the adult?
Columnar Epithelial cells
Organ that eliminates urates from hemolymph
MALPIGHIAN TUBULES
Small gland opening into lubricating sting chamber
Dufours Gland
Thin walled part of the trachea which dilate and collapse
Air sacs
Reason winter bees live longer
Fly less
Under what conditions do laying workers start to lay eggs
Brood less
Queen less colony
Where is the labellum ( flabellum) found?
End of glossa
How many spiracles does an adult bee have?
10 pairs
Fat body cells only found in larva & pupa
Urate cells
What’s the purpose of HAMULI?
Hook the hindering to forewing for flight
What stops the trachea from collapsing?
Taenida
Outer casing of the egg
Chorion
Cells responsible for protein synthesis of protein found in haemolymph
Trophocytes
Fat cells
In which organ is the Pertrophic membrane?
Ventriculus
Where is the ARNHART gland?
5th tarsomere
Footprint pheremone
Oblong plates part of the?
Sting mechanism
How many moults?
6
How many moults?
6
The exocuticle is composed mainly of
Sclerotin
Two glands producing brood food.
Mandibular
Hypopharyngeal
What type of haemocyte engulfs forgeign bodies
Phagocytes
One constituent of nasanov pheromone
Geraniol
Which section of the hind leg of the worker contains corbicula.
Tibia
Type of sense organ sensing smaell
Plate organ
Sensilla parodea?
Enzyme which breaks down starch
Amylase
Distase
Large flight muscles
Dorsoventral muscles
Sheila shaped area of head below antennae
Clypeus
How many sections in the FLAGELLUM of drones?
11
Valve between ventriculus and small intestine
Pyloric valve
Flattened hollow at the end of basitarus, known as the pollen press
Auricle
Name of Targite glands of queen which produces pheremone
Tenner Baumann Glands
Hormone initiating larval moulting
Ecdysone,
Imentary system
Digestion by enzymes
Absorption and assimilation of products of digestion
I
D
A
D
Ingestion
Digestion
Apsorption
Defecation
Blood
Hymolypth
Labium
Mouth
Labrum
Saliva contains
Invertase from hypopharyngeal glands