CH.20

Question 1

The bees: what is the name for this order?

Where are these bees found?

What kind of mouthparts do these bees have?

Answer 1

ANTHOPHILA

In every habitat that contains insect pollinated flowering plants

Question 2

The bees pollinate ? of crops and? Of wildflowering and plants

Answer 2

1/3

90%

Question 3

Apis mellifera

What type of bee is found here?

What honeybee products does it produce?

Answer 3

European honeybee

Honey beeswax and pollen

Question 4

How was the Queen produced in the European honey bee colony?

Answer 4

Through a cast system the queen produces egg the worker collect the pollen and nectar and then there are drones

Question 5

Which type of bees communicate through dancing

What exactly are they communicating

Answer 5

The honeybees

They communicate food source

Question 6

Which B is a cross between the European Honeybee and the African honeybee?

Answer 6

The Africanized honeybees

Question 7

What has bars on it which doesn’t allow it to easily be retracted

Answer 7

The honeybee stinger

Question 8

Epinephrine

Answer 8

Our bee stings

Question 9

The bumblebees are what type of species?

Answer 9

Bombus

Question 10

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?

Answer 10

Queen,

floral and

female

Higher elevation

Question 11

Grab onto flower and a move their muscles rapidly releasing the pollens is called what?

This is the bumblebees

Answer 11

Buzz pollination

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Nectar robbing

Question 13

Stingless bees? Species in tribe
Meliponini

are they actually sting less?

This is the bumblebees

Answer 13

500

They have stingers but are reduced

Question 14

Their cast system determination mechanism differs from that of honeybees how?

This is the bumblebees

Answer 14

They feed on more pollen to make reproductive Queens

Question 15

Solitary bees are solitary or social?

Answer 15

They are solitary

Question 16

Solitary bees what are the benefits of being social

1. ? Of huge nest sites
2. The widespread foraging for?
3. The constant vigilance against? Or?

Answer 16

Construction, food, predation, parasitism

Question 17

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?

Answer 17

Vulnerable, parasites, resources

Question 18

The leaf cutter bees use? Nest and cavities

Answer 18

Abandoned

Question 19

Family Halictidae

What kind of bees are they?

What is their diet like what is their nesting like

Answer 19

Sweet bees

They’re attracted to salt content (sweet)

Mostly ground mass provisioning major Polin feeders and pollinators

Question 20

What are the differences between bees and wasps?

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Family vespidae

What kind of bees I found here?

Answer 21

Wasp you social, and a lot of them are non-social ones

Question 22

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?

Answer 22

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

Question 23

What kind of bees are these?

What kind of legs do they have compare to paper wasp?

Answer 23

Yellow jackets they have shorter legs when compared to paper wasps

Question 24

How can you tell the difference between wasps and yellow jackets

Answer 24

The Yellowjackets a shorter legs

Question 25

What type of nesting do the yellow jackets have?

Answer 25

They never have Ariel they will build an underground nest in soil and abandon louses

Question 26

Why are some yellow jackets excessive invasive species?

Answer 26

Because they are a opportunistic scavengers

Question 27

Vespa

What kind of bees are found here?

What is there nesting like?

In comparison to the Yellowjackets how are they?

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Vespa:

What do they eat for energy

Answer 28

The hornets eat the younge of honeybees for energy