Bees Flashcards

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1
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Historically, used by

A

cave dwellers

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2
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historically: must ___ hive to get honey out

A

destroy

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3
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when was the invention of hives, frames, and foundations?

A

1789

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4
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to not destroy hive, do we humans invented what?

A

put foundation in and bees draw honey off of that

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5
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Before sugar, what did we use as sweetener?

A

honey

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6
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Importance to humanity: Direct sources of what?

A

honey, bee pollen, royal jelly, bees wax

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7
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Importance to humanity: indirect sources of what?

A

pollination

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8
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Livelihood for bees (2023 stats)

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  • WI: 62,000 colonies
  • 2.79 million pounds of honey
  • $8.4 million (value production)
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9
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What is the biggest aspect in production?

A

POLLINATION

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10
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Social structure of bees

A
  • queen > drone > worker
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11
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Queen bee

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  • mother to all in the hive
  • fully functional female
  • bigger than other bees (longer and thinner)
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12
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How many queens per hive?

A

1

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13
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lifespan of queen bee

A

long life (many as possible)

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14
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Queen produced by feeding ____

A
  • royal jelly
  • feed it to a larvae which will turn into a queen
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15
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what would happen if many queens in hive?

A

fight till 1 queen left

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16
Q

queen is the only bee to ___

A

lay eggs

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17
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how many eggs does queen bee lay?

A

at peak: 2000-3000

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18
Q

Drone

A

male bees

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19
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Drone: traits

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  • larger and wider than others
  • no stinger, short tongue
  • very good antennae
  • have best of times and worst of times
  • lives life of luxury, BUT fly around and look for virgin queen to mate with
    -> but during fall or during shortage of food, gets pushed out of hive to die
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20
Q

Nays of being a drone

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during fall or during shortage of food, gets pushed out of hive to die

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21
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Lifespan of drone

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1 season gneerally

Killed in fall

22
Q

drones developed by ___

A

parthenogenesis

23
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Define parthenogenesis

A
  • when UNfertilized egg spontaneously from into a drone
  • HAploid egg (one copy of DNA)
  • Formation continues like a normal embryo
  • result: males really just multiply and deliver queen’s generic material
24
Q

Who determines sex of offspring

A

Queen

Fertilized egg ->
Unfertilized egg -> drone

25
Q

“a _____ has a grandfather but no father and can have grandsons but no ___”

A

drone, sons

26
Q

Bee reproduction

A
  • Virgin queen makes mating flight
  • Several drones mate with her in flight
  • Queen goes back to hive
  • Can be done artificially
27
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How many drones mate with queen in flight?

A

several

28
Q

Bees: Who makes the mating flight?

A

virgin queen

29
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if drone mates with queen, what happens to him?

A

dies

30
Q

Can bee reproduction be done artificially?

A

yes

31
Q

Queen lays an egg in what

A

wach cell

32
Q

Bee egg hatches into what

A

larva

33
Q

workers feed larvae with what?

A

mixture of pollen and nectar (think about nutrients: pollen is protein source, nectar is sugar)

34
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Bee’s source of protein and energy?

A

Protein: pollen
Energy: nectar

35
Q

takes __ days for bee pupas to form inside workers’ cap cell

A

12 days

36
Q

It takes ___ days from egg to emerge as adult worker bee

A

21

37
Q

Makeup of bee workers

A

-pollen baskets
- wax glands
- scent glands
- barbed stinger
- long tongue

38
Q

Which bee is the smallest?

A

workers

39
Q

which bee is the most abundant?

A

workers: 3000-60000 per hive

40
Q

What sex is workers?

A

female, but underdeveloped

41
Q

T/F: A honey bee will die if it stings you

A

T

42
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Bee workers’ duties

A
  • wax secretion
  • brood rearing (brood = baby bees, larvae)
  • attending to queen
  • guarding hive entrance
  • nectar and pollen collection (provides all necessary nutrients for bees (other than water)
  • bees work both day and night
43
Q

Queen excluder

A
  • screen with spaces that worker bees can go through but queen cannot (she too big)
  • ut she can’t go into upper frames
  • why: we don’t want egg and larvae in the comb if we gonna eat it
44
Q

propolis

A

“bee glue”

  • bees will glue tgt frames, fill up a hole
45
Q

Smoker

A

put stuff in it to burn a bit which bring out smoke

  • calms bees down and back them off
46
Q

swarming

A

a way for bees to multiply (1 hive of bees and some leave to start another hive)

  • important for proliferation of species
  • causes/reasons: overcrowded hive
47
Q

why would yo not want bees to swarm?

A

wanna let them make honey where YOU can collect it

48
Q

‘methods of preventing swarming

A
  • keep open brood area (add more chambers
  • keep a productive young queen
49
Q

Bee communication

A
  • the way they DANCE tell other bees where food course are
  • chemicals: pheromones (smells, scents) -> Each hive have their own unique scent
50
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CCD: Colony collapse disorder

A
  • lots of (feral) hives die
  • Causes: don’t know for sure, but proposed:

->GMO plants, pesticides, cell phone radiation, global warming, nosema fungus,