Bees

Question 1

As of January 1, 2017, anyone that feeds antibiotics to an animal needs to

Answer 1

have a prescription from a veterinarian to obtain antibiotics

Question 2

What animal is considered food-producing animals by the FDA Center for Veterinary Medicine

Answer 2

Honeybees

Question 3

If a beekeeper chooses to give antibiotics to his/her bees, they will need to

Answer 3

do it through consulations with a veterinarian

Question 4

What is VCPR?

Answer 4

Veterinarian Client Patient Relationship

Question 5

How many bites of food in the US depends on honeybees and other pollinators?

Answer 5

1 out of 3

Question 6

Honeybees pollinate __________ worth of crops each year? This includes more than 130 fruits and vegetables

Answer 6

$15 billion

Question 7

In terms of colony losses in the United States, what factors are included?

Answer 7

climate change, pests, pesticides, urbanization and dieases

Question 8

From April 2021 to April 2022, beekeepers estimated a lost of _____ of their managed honeybee colonies

Answer 8

39%

Question 9

What is CCD?

Answer 9

Colony Collapse Disorder.
a syndrome specifically defined as a dead colony with no adult bees and with no dead bee bodies

Question 10

What are some factors of CCD?

Answer 10

parasites and pests
pathogens
poor nutrition
sublethal exposure to pesticides

Question 11

Is there a treatment for CCD?

Answer 11

NO!!

Question 12

What are Varroa Mites?

Answer 12

external parasitic mites
attacks and feeds on honeybees
can only reproduce in a honeybee colony
attaches to the body and weakens the bee by sucking fat bodies

Question 13

What diease is caused by Varroa Mites

Answer 13

Varroosis

Question 14

How many eggs can a queen bee lay?

Answer 14

2,000

Question 15

What type of bee carries the Varroa Mite into the colony

Answer 15

worker bees

Question 16

When the varroa mite lays eggs, which sex is the first to hatch?

Answer 16

Males

Question 17

When a bee hatches, it is already severly diseased and weakened, because mites also transmit dangerous viruses such as?

Answer 17

Deformed Wing Virus

Question 18

Is there a treatment for Defromed Wing Virus

Answer 18

No

Question 19

What are the treatments for Varroa Mites?

Answer 19

Synthethic
amitraz
apivar (brand name)
Contact (mode)
Essential Oil
Thymol (thyme)
Apigard (brand name)
Fumigant (mode)
Acid
Oxalic Acid/Formic Acid
Mite Away/Formic Pro
Fumigant (mode)

Question 20

What is SHB?

Answer 20

Small hive bettle

Question 21

What are the characteristics of SHB?

Answer 21

1.secondary or opptunisitic pest
2. bee colonies able to contend with fairly large populations of adult
3. no establised thershold number for sall hive bettles
4. their ability to devastate a bee colony is related to many factors
5. causing damage to comb, stored honey, and pollen

Question 22

What are the 4 SHB Controls?

Answer 22

Practice good apiary management
remove honey supers
mechanical traps (swiffer wipe)
baited traps

Question 23

What is the American foulbrood?

Answer 23

1. highly contagious, spores easily transmitted through the hive
2. no end cycle
3. foul smell
4. always in capped brood, appears caved in
   larvae become a gooey mess, the cap becomes dark brown, rope test

Question 24

What is the Prophylactic associated with the American foulbrood?

Answer 24

Terramycin or Tylan

Question 25

What is the Veterinarian’s Recommendation for American Foulbrood?

Answer 25

Burn Hives