CH.20 Flashcards
The bees: what is the name for this order?
Where are these bees found?
What kind of mouthparts do these bees have?
ANTHOPHILA
In every habitat that contains insect pollinated flowering plants
The bees pollinate ? of crops and? Of wildflowering and plants
1/3
90%
Apis mellifera
What type of bee is found here?
What honeybee products does it produce?
European honeybee
Honey beeswax and pollen
How was the Queen produced in the European honey bee colony?
Through a cast system the queen produces egg the worker collect the pollen and nectar and then there are drones
Which type of bees communicate through dancing
What exactly are they communicating
The honeybees
They communicate food source
Which B is a cross between the European Honeybee and the African honeybee?
The Africanized honeybees
What has bars on it which doesn’t allow it to easily be retracted
The honeybee stinger
Epinephrine
Our bee stings
The bumblebees are what type of species?
Bombus
The bumblebees have a single? Colonies,? General list, a long forging range and? Have Pollen and basket
And what type of elevation is it found?
Queen,
floral and
female
Higher elevation
Grab onto flower and a move their muscles rapidly releasing the pollens is called what?
This is the bumblebees
Buzz pollination
Make a hole near the base of the flower to access the nectar while avoiding pollen and transfer is called what?
This is the bumblebees
Nectar robbing
Stingless bees? Species in tribe
Meliponini
are they actually sting less?
This is the bumblebees
500
They have stingers but are reduced
Their cast system determination mechanism differs from that of honeybees how?
This is the bumblebees
They feed on more pollen to make reproductive Queens
Solitary bees are solitary or social?
They are solitary
Solitary bees what are the benefits of being social
- ? Of huge nest sites
- The widespread foraging for?
- The constant vigilance against? Or?
Construction, food, predation, parasitism
What are the cost of being social?
1 ? To the spread of contagious pathogen’s
2nest sites can be explored by? Who steal food and attack brood young
3 individuals compete for for space and?
Vulnerable, parasites, resources
The leaf cutter bees use? Nest and cavities
Abandoned
Family Halictidae
What kind of bees are they?
What is their diet like what is their nesting like
Sweet bees
They’re attracted to salt content (sweet)
Mostly ground mass provisioning major Polin feeders and pollinators
What are the differences between bees and wasps?
The bees adults are attracted to nectar and the larvae we are attracted to pollen they are chunky round and have hairy bodies
Wasp the adults like nectar as well but their larvate are interested in pray there are usually thinner cylindrical body hairless and smooth legs
Family vespidae
What kind of bees I found here?
Wasp you social, and a lot of them are non-social ones
The paper wasp (polistes)
What kind of nesting do they have
What type of face features do they have?
what kind of diet do they have?
They have an aerial nest it hangs on the ceiling or underneath part of the roof they have a different pattern in shape on their face
Their diet is to collect Catapillar’s to feed developing young they will kill other wasps they don’t know
What kind of bees are these?
What kind of legs do they have compare to paper wasp?
Yellow jackets they have shorter legs when compared to paper wasps
How can you tell the difference between wasps and yellow jackets
The Yellowjackets a shorter legs
What type of nesting do the yellow jackets have?
They never have Ariel they will build an underground nest in soil and abandon louses
Why are some yellow jackets excessive invasive species?
Because they are a opportunistic scavengers
Vespa
What kind of bees are found here?
What is there nesting like?
In comparison to the Yellowjackets how are they?
They are hornets
They have an aerial nest on a branch on a roof they never go into the ground
They are very aggressive when compared to yellow jackets they can kill 40 honeybees in one minute
Vespa:
What do they eat for energy
The hornets eat the younge of honeybees for energy
