Honey bee Development

Question 1

Are honey bees hemimetabolous or holometabolous?

Answer 1

Holometabolous because they go through a complete metamorphosis

Question 2

What are the different stages of brood?

Answer 2

• egg
• larva
• pupa

Question 3

What is the length of each stage of the queen’s development?

Answer 3

Egg: 3 days
Larva: 5.5 days
Pupa: 7 days
Total: 16 days

Question 4

What is the length of each stage of the worker’s development?

Answer 4

Egg: 3 days
Larva: 6 days
Pupa: 12 days
Total: 21 days

Question 5

What is the length of each stage of the drone’s development?

Answer 5

Egg: 3 days
Larva: 6.5 days
Pupa: 14.5 days
Total: 24 days

Question 6

How many instars of moulting occur with the larva?

Answer 6

5

Question 7

True or false: honey bee larva eat 1500x their body weight?

Answer 7

True!

Question 8

Which hormone regulates moulting?

Answer 8

Ecdysone

Question 9

What does the juvenile hormone in honey bees do?

Answer 9

Influences cell division and body differentiation

Question 10

What is royal jelly?

Answer 10

A substance produced by glands of worker bee’s heads. Fed to larva to produce a queen. Rich in fatty acids and vitamins

Question 11

What are worker and drone larvae fed?

Answer 11

Bee bread, a mixture of pollen and nectar

Question 12

Describe the process from egg to adult for honeybees

Answer 12

1. Queen lays egg in wax cell
2. Workers feed hatched larva
3. Larva grow to full size
4. Worker seals wax cell
5. Larva become pupa
6. Adult bee chews wax capping and emerges