Introduction

Question 1

First known evidence that early man robbed honey from bees was found in ?

Answer 1

Cave wall in Eastern Spain (7,000 BC)

Question 2

Bees came to life ?

Answer 2

58 million years earlier than man (2 million years = age of man)

Question 3

Modern beekeeping started when and where?

Answer 3

Europe, middle of 19th century

Question 4

Inventor of movable frame hive

Answer 4

Rev. L.L. Langstroth (1851)

Question 5

Other notable inventions:

Answer 5

Bellow smoker, Queen excluder, Detachable super

Question 6

Beekeeping in PH started in ?

Answer 6

Luzon - UPCA; R.A. Morse and F.M. Laigo (1968)

Question 7

How about in Mindanao?

Answer 7

Panabo, Davao del Norte; Mr. Paul Maxwell (1980); Mr. Francisco de Ocampo

Question 8

1986

Answer 8

Panabo Beekepers Multipurpose Cooperative was formed with 27 members, sponsored by Panabo Rural Bank

Question 9

1987

Answer 9

DOST-XI sent personnel for beekeeping training in Laguna

Question 10

1990

Answer 10

B.A. Satur Foundation, Inc hired Mr. Jeong Huan Oh and established an apiary (USEP), Apokon, Tagum, Davao del Norte

Question 11

How many beekeepers in Mindanao

Answer 11

405 persons trained, 94 active beekeepers

Question 12

Common honey bee

Answer 12

Apis mellifera

Question 13

Giant honey bee

Answer 13

Apis dorsata

Question 14

Indian honey bee

Answer 14

Apis cerana or Apis indica

Question 15

Dwarf honey bee

Answer 15

Apis florea

Question 16

Stingless honey bee

Answer 16

Trigona / Tetragonula biroi

Question 17

Other stingless bees

Answer 17

Tetragonula iridipennis, Tetragonula laeviceps, Tetragonula sapiens

Question 18

They construct multiple combs in a colony

Answer 18

A mellifera, A cerana or A indica

Question 19

They construct single combs

Answer 19

A dorsata, A florea

Question 20

Cells of stingless bees are?

Answer 20

Clusters of oval barrels

Question 21

Earliest Apini fossil specimens were found in?

Answer 21

Baltic Amber (Eocene layers) - 40 MYA - Genus Electrapis

Question 22

A fossilized honey bee comb was recently discovered in

Answer 22

Malaysia, late Tertiary or early Quaternary period

Question 23

A mellifera originated in ?

Answer 23

African tropics or subtropics (Tertiary period)

Question 24

Apis mellifera mellifera L.

Answer 24

German dark bees (short tongue)

Question 25

Apis mellifera ligustica Spin.

Answer 25

Italian bees (yellow)

Question 26

Apis mellifera carnica Pollman

Answer 26

Carniolan bees (gray, gentle)

Question 27

Apis mellifera caucasica Gorb.

Answer 27

Caucasian bees (susceptible to Nosema disease)

Question 28

Apis mellifera cecropia Kiesw.

Answer 28

Macedonian bees (carnica race)

Question 29

Apis mellifera acervorum

Answer 29

Russian steppe bees

Question 30

Apis mellifera remipes

Answer 30

Transcaucasian bees

Question 31

Apis mellifera intermissa v. Buttel-Reepen

Answer 31

Tellian bees (Sahara, Libya & Morroco) rears >100 queens (swarm periods)

Question 32

Apis mellifera lamarckii Cockerell (formerly A mellifera fasciata)

Answer 32

Egyptian bees (Egypt, Sudan, NE Africa, rears 308 queens/colony)

Question 33

Apis mellifera adansonii Lepeletier

Answer 33

East African bees (small, aggressive, swarm and abscond frequently)

Question 34

Apis mellifera adansonii Latreille

Answer 34

West African bees (yellow, same w scutellata)

Question 35

Apis mellifera monticola Smith

Answer 35

Mountain bees (Tanzania @ high altitude 1,500 - 3,100 meters, long hair, large, gentle, and dark)

Question 36

Apis mellifera capensis Escholtz

Answer 36

Cape bees (S Africa, lays parthenogenetic females)

Question 37

Apis mellifera syriaca; A m anatolia, A m meda

Answer 37

Turkey and Iran

Question 38

A m scutellata

Answer 38

1956, Africanized bees