Test 2

Question 1

Karl von Frisch

Answer 1

conducted lots of research on the bees’ dance language

Question 2

Adrian Wenner and Patrick Wells

Answer 2

California scientists and noted skeptics of the honey bee dance “language”

Question 3

James Gould

Answer 3

conducted misdirection experiments to prove that bees use the dance language to communicate where food sources are

Question 4

queen pheromone transmission

Answer 4

workers groom and lick the queen and it spreads through the colony through touch and trophallaxis

Question 5

retinue response

Answer 5

workers surround the queen or anything with her pheromone

Question 6

queen cell

Answer 6

vertical, normally on periphery of brood, queens develop head first

Question 7

Virgil

Answer 7

thought that eggs rained down from heaven and foragers collected them from flowers

Question 8

Charls Butler

Answer 8

saw the “king” lay an egg; first to admit it was actually a queen

Question 9

Jan Swammerdon

Answer 9

anatomically proved that queens were female and drones male; couldn’t figure out how the pieces fit and thought that “association” with drones was necessary for egg-laying

Question 10

Francois Huber

Answer 10

proved that mating takes place outside of the hive; noticed that the queen’s anatomy had changed when they returned to the hive

Question 11

Johannes Dzierzon

Answer 11

discovered the spermathecae; drones arise from parthenogenesis

Question 12

Oertel, Roberts, and Gary

Answer 12

queens mate more than once; captured mating on video

Question 13

Langstroth hive

Answer 13

a standard beehive

Question 14

lid

Answer 14

roof of the hive, metal to make waterproof

Question 15

inner cover

Answer 15

the ceiling

Question 16

honey super

Answer 16

holds surplus honey which is harvested by the beekeepers; can be more than one; smaller because honey is heavy

Question 17

queen excluder

Answer 17

too small for the queen to fit through so that queen cannot get into the honey supers, keeps honey clean from brood

Question 18

brood box

Answer 18

1 or 2 for standard colony, stores brood, pollen, and sometimes honey

Question 19

bottom board

Answer 19

the floor, has a spacer for the entrance

Question 20

frames

Answer 20

bees affix combs to the frames, 10 fit in box perfectly with bee space

Question 21

hive tool

Answer 21

used to work and manipulate hive, scrape off burr comb, etc.

Question 22

extracted honey

Answer 22

normal, liquid honey

Question 23

cut-comb honey

Answer 23

a cut piece of the comb

Question 24

chunk honey

Answer 24

cut comb topped off with extracted

Question 25

creamed honey

Answer 25

purposefully crystalized

Question 26

granulation

Answer 26

glucose crystalizes in the honey

Question 27

mead

Answer 27

fermented honey water

Question 28

wax

Answer 28

use for candles, cosmetic products

Question 29

pollen

Answer 29

health supplement, protein source

Question 30

propolis

Answer 30

health products, antimicrobial, cancer treatment, wood varnish

Question 31

venom

Answer 31

used for immunotherapy,