Bee questions 4

Question 1

When do the cells get covered?

Answer 1

• Queen: 3+5 = 8 days
• Worker: 3+6 = 9 days
• Drone: 3+7 = 10 days

Question 2

How many tons of honey is produced?

Answer 2

• Annual production in the world: 1,2 - 1,4 million tons
• Europe: 204.000 tons

Question 3

How many beehives in EU?

Answer 3

• 16 million

Question 4

Susceptible age in Acute Bee Paralysis?

Answer 4

• 2-4 day old workers

Question 5

Who is susceptible to Kashmir Bee virus?

Answer 5

• Mainly workers

Question 6

How many eyes does the queen have?

Answer 6

• 1 oculus containing about 4500 eyes

Question 7

Which one has reduced mouth parts?

Answer 7

• Drone

Question 8

Which gland produces the royal jelly?

Answer 8

• Hypopharyngeal gland

Question 9

What is the causative agent of Black Queen Cell disease?

Answer 9

• Black queen cell virus

Question 10

Which one has the highest number of eyes?

Answer 10

• Drone! (9500)

Question 11

Is Tropilaeleps present in Europe?

Answer 11

• No (not yet)

Question 12

Can the nosema infected workers start to forage earlier?

Answer 12

• Yes

Question 13

Which is zoonotic?

Answer 13

• Stone brood (Aspergillosis)

Question 14

How many days is the development in the egg?

Answer 14

• 3 days

Question 15

how many eyes in compound eye of worker?

Answer 15

• 4500 (answer says 4000-5000)

Question 16

Foul smell coming from AFB or EFB?

Answer 16

• EFB

Question 17

Which has fish-glue like smell?

Answer 17

• AFB

Question 18

Where do bees mate?

Answer 18

• Mates 1 time at a hight of 100 meters and then die (drones)

Question 19

If worker bees can’t fly and are slow at collecting nectar, they’re infected with..

Answer 19

• Sacbrood virus

Question 20

Who has the longest larval stage?

Answer 20

• Drone

Question 21

Varroa is an infestation of: adult, larvae or both?

Answer 21

• Both

Question 22

Varroa overwinters in: adult, brood, both?

Answer 22

• Adult

Question 23

Secondary pathogen causing foul smell in EFB?

Answer 23

paenibacillus alvei

Question 24

What enzyme makes honey from pollen?

Answer 24

• Invertase

Question 25

What order are bees in?

Answer 25

* Hymenoptera

Question 26

How many drones are in the hive in the winter?

Answer 26

* None!

Question 27

How far away is food source when bees do the waggle dance? Less than 10, greater than 100, neither?

Answer 27

* Greater than 100 meters

Question 28

What is chalk brood?

Answer 28

* Fungi

Question 29

What stage of moth is destructive?

Answer 29

* larval stage

Question 30

Which one also affect the head?

Answer 30

* Stone brood

Question 31

Which one does not affect the head?

Answer 31

* Chalk brood

Question 32

* Larvae and adults are susceptible to

Answer 32

* Varroosis, Stonebrood

Question 33

This virus is over 300nm (dsDNA virus)

Answer 33

* Filamentous virus

Question 34

How long does it take for the milk to curdle in EFB?

Answer 34

* At least 1,5 minutes

Question 35

Which pathogen causes sour smell in EFB?

Answer 35

Enterococcus faecalis

Question 36

Describe the waggle dance and its purpose

Answer 36

* The bees use this to inform the others where to find food when it is more than 100 meters away. Using the location of the sun and gravity to show the way

Question 37

Acarapis woodi which is infectious: female, fertile female, male, both female and fertile female

Answer 37

* female

Question 38

Is small hive beetle a notifiable disease?

Answer 38

yes

Question 39

How long does it take to develop an embryo? (he means how many days from egg to larvae)

Answer 39

* 3 days

Question 40

What is bee wolf?

Answer 40

* A wasp, Philanthus trangulum

Question 41

Which virus causes a black cell and something more

Answer 41

* Black queen cell virus (BQCV)

Question 42

Where do bees mate?

Answer 42

* Environment

Question 43

What is chalk brood?

Answer 43

* Fungus!

Question 44

Apimyasis caused by Senotainia tricuspis? True/false question

Answer 44

* True

Question 45

The Tropilaelaps has a longer reproductive cycle than Varroa? True/false question

Answer 45

* False

Question 46

What is the infective part of EFB? cyst, spores, vegetative, vegetative + spore

Answer 46

* Vegetative