Unit 1

Question 1

Honey bees as biological study subjects

Answer 1

social
convenient
interesting
beneficial and productive
beekeeping

Question 2

human honey hunting

Answer 2

9-10 thousand years ago

Question 3

earliest record of beekeeping

Answer 3

Egypt

4-5 thousand years ago

Question 4

what did egyptians use honey for

Answer 4

natural sweetner, medicine, alcoholic beverage, cosmetics

Question 5

how did egyptians transport bee colonies

Answer 5

long clay cylinders on boats

Question 6

where did Babylonians keep bees

Answer 6

pottery hives

Question 7

How did greeks and romans use bees

Answer 7

honey, wax production, studied them (Aristotle)

Question 8

how did Aristotle use bees

Answer 8

studied them, thought the queen was a king and recommended honey as remedy for several ailments

Question 9

bee hives

Answer 9

pottery, wood, wicker, straw, cork, elongates

upside-down wicker baskets became very popular in europe

Question 10

when was the scientific basis of beekeeping established

Answer 10

16th, 17th, 18th century

Question 11

Nickel Jacob 1568

Answer 11

queen could be reared by the bees from an egg or a young larva

Question 12

Luis mendes de torres 1586

Answer 12

large bee was a queen not a king

Question 13

Charles butler 1609

Answer 13

barrel-shaped individuals were males

Question 14

Richard Remnant 1637

Answer 14

workers are females

Question 15

Anton Janscha 1771

Answer 15

queens mate with drones

Question 16

Apis Mellifera (Ap)

Answer 16

western honey bee

europe, africa, americas

Question 17

who introduced (Ap) into the americas

Answer 17

european settlers in 17th century

Question 18

stingless bees

Answer 18

produced less honey and wax

Question 19

Lorenzo L. Langstroth

father or modern beekeeping

Answer 19

most useful hive design with movable frames with 9 mm passage area between them (bee space)

Question 20

19th century beekeeping devices

Answer 20

beeswax foundation, honey extractor, queen excluder, smoker

Question 21

when was the foundation of modern beekeeping established

Answer 21

20th century

Question 22

europe

Answer 22

20 million hives

>15 kg per colony

Question 23

china

Answer 23

worlds largest producer and exporter of honey and royal jelly
6 million hives
80 million kg of honey/year

Question 24

africa

Answer 24

14 million bee hives

traditional type

Question 25

australia

Answer 25

1 million colonies
migratory apiculture
70 kg/colony

Question 26

americas

Answer 26

12 million colonies

Question 27

mexico

Answer 27

4th world producer
2 million hives
27 kg/hive

Question 28

argentina

Answer 28

1.5 million colonies

35 kg/hive

Question 29

USA

Answer 29

20kg/hive

Question 30

Canada

Answer 30

60kg/hive

650 000 colonies

Question 31

queens

Answer 31

lay eggs

produce pheromones

Question 32

drones

Answer 32

develop from unfertilized eggs

mate with virgin queens

Question 33

workers

Answer 33

females with undeveloped reproductive organs

perform tasks

Question 34

evolutionary origin

Answer 34

sphecoid wasp

Apis is thought to be from tropical origin

Question 35

oldest fossil records of bees

Answer 35

northern europe

50 mya

Question 36

kingdom

Answer 36

anamalia

Question 37

phylum

Answer 37

arthropoda

Question 38

class

Answer 38

insecta

Question 39

order

Answer 39

hymenoptera

Question 40

superfamily

Answer 40

apoidea

Question 41

family

Answer 41

apidae

Question 42

genus

Answer 42

apis

Question 43

species

Answer 43

apis mellifera

Question 44

apis florea

Answer 44

dward bee

asia

Question 45

apis dorsata

Answer 45

giant honey bee

asia

Question 46

apic cerana

Answer 46

asia